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Student protests by the dozens won't persuade fire officials to silence the noontime blast of the Civil Defense siren stop Littauer, Deputy Fire Chief Edmund Burke said yesterday...
Fire officials have received a number of student protests about the blasts, according to Burke, and most of them come shortly after noon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday--the time the siren is tested...
...Japan's Emperor Hirohito greeted the New Year with his traditional annual poem, which as usual had the lilt wrung out of it in translation. The royal quat rain: "Stout are the hearts/Of men who toil/At their honest calling/Enduring heat and cold." Cinemactress Ava Gardner, a restless siren who has spent the past month roving the world and attending national premieres of her latest movie, The Barefoot Contessa, popped up in Stockholm. She wore shoes to a party in her honor, pursed her moist lips prettily to get a kiss from Swedish Cinemogul Anders Sandrew, who surprised everyone...
...Meets Siren, but winds up happily in wifey's arms; and the tough guy, it turns out is all custard filling underneath. Perhaps one reason why Lunatics and Lovers keeps straining so hard to seem amusingly sinful is that all the time it is really playing safe...
...these siren songs, Walt lent half an ear. Encouraged by Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor, he made the biggest boner of his career: Fantasia. Its basic idea, to illustrate music with pictures, was depressing enough to anyone who loves either form of art. Its declared intention to bring "culture" to the "masses" turned out to be silly: it had nothing to do with culture, and the "masses" would have nothing to do with it. Fantasia has never earned back what it cost. Worse yet, though Walt learned a lesson from Fantasia, he learned the wrong one: mistaking for culture what...