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...review neither contained nor implied criticism of events at Fatima, or of any religious beliefs. Instead, it condemned the producers of this film for debasing a sensitive religious theme into an irreligious sideshow. Comparisons between the event and its movie facsimile were based on information from "The National Catholic Almanac...
...Sideshow War. Technically the mission was a success: ten planes used up 40,000 gallons of high-octane gasoline to drop 100 tons of high explosives by radar through the clouds on a tiny bridge span. Yet, in Korea the U.S. Air Force was expending precious planes, crews, pilots and supplies in a war that was only a sideshow. And even in that sideshow war, the aging U.S. B-29s have been driven from the daytime sky, are forced to fly by night because they are relics of World War II within range of an enemy air force designed precisely...
Sarasota, Fla. is the winter training ground of "The Greatest Show on Earth." It can also boast an elegant sideshow: one of the nation's greatest collections of Baroque art, housed in Sarasota's salmon-pink John and Mable Ringling Museum. The public favorite at the museum is Paolo Veronese's Rest on the Flight into Egypt...
Texas Carnival (MGM) turns Red Skelton and Esther Williams loose in a familiar but cheerful Technicolored antic. They play a carnival sideshow team mistaken for a pair of multimillionaires at a grandiose Texas resort hotel...
POLITICAL NOTES $250,000 on the Bed Dudley J. LeBlanc, who peddled patent medicine (Hadacol) with a sideshow of dancing girls and other razzle-dazzle, is now selling Dudley J. LeBlanc with some of the same techniques. Last week, LeBlanc, a Louisiana state senator, and Lieutenant Governor William J. Dodd, both candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor of Louisiana, talked about forming a combined ticket. One would run for governor, the other for lieutenant governor. The Hadacol baron, who had just sold his business for $8,200,000,* proposed that each put up $250,000 to finance the campaign...