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Kinsey & Sanskrit. The first clear sign that the U.S. had again caught the recitation bug was the smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the three volumes of I Can Hear It Now . . . (Columbia; $5.95 each), Edward R. Murrow's playback of headlines and speeches from 1919 to 1949, sold a total of 500,000 sets. More than two dozen companies put tons of Vinylite at the disposal of almost anyone who would talk...
...will not clothe the bare framework of science with the warm garments of true humanism, they will end up by making machines their god and mathematics their only dogma. The rising paganism of the western world will make our civilization cold as interstellar spaces, ruthless as the atoms which smash each other...
...could launch, general tactical action that would not only smash the invasion but blunt Red China's air power, communications system and expanding industrial plant for the foreseeable future. Under this alternative atomic weapons would be used against the Chinese mainland, although great care would be exercised to avoid indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations...
...Greta Garbo's smash box-office comeback in 19-year-old Camille is breaking all records at New York's Normandie Theater and is also doing well in Miami Beach and Philadelphia. Impressed by the Swedish recluse's powerful draw, M-G-M has had the film withdrawn from the free museum circuit and is considering a nationwide release...
Crashout (Hal E. Chester; Filmakers) is a crime-doesn't-pay movie that consists of one long chase complicated by another. The first begins with a smash-bang crash-out of six convicts from prison. The second begins soon after, when their wounded leader promises them a share of the loot he has hidden away if they do not abandon him. While the crooks pursue the hidden loot, the police pursue the crooks...