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...Nonesuch is back in a new, beautifully bound and printed edition, this time not limited, and priced at a more reasonable $35. The New Nonesuch keeps Farjeon's text (he died in 1945), tries for what the designer of both editions, Sir Francis Meynell, calls the "sheerest Shakespeare." Sheer it is, especially in spelling and punctuation...
...cher (Vera Zorina as Jeanne: Philadelphia Orchestra, soloists and choirs conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Columbia. 2 LPs). The burning of St. Joan, told in a magnificent mishmash of symbolism, poetry and high drama. Honegger's score contains movements of surpassing beauty, others of sheerest musical exhibitionism. A brilliant performance...
Nylon Glut It was a buyers' market, with a vengeance, for nylon stockings. Thrifty U.S. shoppers could buy sheerest-gauge, unbranded nylons last week for as little as 89? a pair, v. $1.20 earlier this year. Reason: when the Korean war began, shortlived scare buying caused manufacturers to turn out so many nylons that they glutted the market...
...story was of shipments occurring in 1944. Meanwhile Broadcaster Lewis kept the pot boiling by throwing in another prospective villain. He charged that Henry Wallace was the official who had overruled General Groves's protest and insisted that atomic materials be sent to the Russians. Snapped Wallace: "Sheerest fabrication...
...Julien in April 1915 (13 years before she was born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital. Two years later, after his parents had given him up for dead (memorial services for him had been held at Perth...