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Cowboys & Indians. But Grandstaff was also a habitual musician. In the penitentiary library, he came across a book called Big Spring: the Casual Biography of a Prairie Town-a folksy history by Big Spring (Texas) Druggist Shine Philips. From his piano-selling days, Grandstaff remembered Big Spring: a prairie town of 20,000 which had sprung up around a spring where buffaloes, Indians, cowboys and finally the Texas and Pacific R.R. had come for water. He decided to write some music about Big Spring...
...review of Madame Bovary, TIME has a good word for the stars, producer and director. But the guy who, along with Gustave Flaubert, gave all these people, including TIME'S astute reviewer, something to shine at-Screenwriter Robert Ardrey, was referred to only as "the Hollywood version...
...Dorati signaled for the first crashing ta-ta-ta-dah (from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5), then some muted lullaby music, the musicians began to look like small boys getting into a new game that was going to be fun. Most of the instruments got their chance to shine. Boomed the narrator, Nelson Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro, chord, and boogie-beat, Major, minor...
...route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across the farm states, where farmers often worked from sunup to sundown, sweating in the fields or jolting behind the oven-like engine of a tractor...
Hildebrandt's eyes shine with confidence and conviction: "The Russians throw everyone they suspect into a concentration camp. We don't need to do that. As long as we know the enemy, we are not worried. Our side is stronger. Eventually, the Russians will see they can get nothing more from Germany but trouble. They will go. Until then, we will fight them. Not with sabotage-the Soviet system sabotages itself-but with the collection and spread of information, with passive resistance, with the 'F for Freedom.' If you are against inhumanity, you must fight...