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Weddings and Babies. A brilliant technical tour de force by Shoestring Independent Morris (The Little Fugitive) Engel, whose candidly filmed story of a smalltime photographer and his "model" becomes a mordant Manhattan Orpheus.
Weddings and Babies (Morris Engel Associates), as a technical exercise in cinema is one of the most exciting feature films the U.S. has produced in a decade. Shot mostly on Manhattan's Lower East side the picture was photographed, directed and partly written by Morris Engel, a shoestring independent...
In disgust at those who called themselves "German Christians" and toed the Nazi line, Bonhoeffer accepted a pastorate in England in 1933, but returned to Germany when his church called him to take charge of one of its near-illegal seminaries, which were frowned on by the Nazis but permitted...
Tummy Ache. In Antwerp, when Aïda. he zoo's biggest elephant, died of intestinal trouble, an autopsy revealed that her stomach contained 1,706 peanuts, 198 cheese, ham, and other kinds of sandwiches, 1,330 pieces of candy, seven ice-cream cones, 811 biscuits, 17 apples, 198...
Abundant Talent. From such sales, KQED gets one-third of its total income of about $350,000 yearly. The secret is San Francisco's abundant talent. From two dozen nearby colleges and universities have come famed performers: Nobel Prizewinning Chemists Glenn T. Seaborg and Linus Pauling, Nuclear Physicist Edward...