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Startling as a shout, the silent casbah sprang to life last week, and its outburst basically altered the nature and changed the pace of the long-drawn-out agony known by the bleak title of "the Algerian problem...
...Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow of Sir Alec Guinness...
...they hurried home. Uther pressed his courtship by besieging the great castle at Tintadel-and by being transformed (a simple job for Merlin) into the likeness of Gorlois, which let him dally with the hoodwinked lady. At length Gorlois was killed and Uther married Igerne. From this union sprang King Arthur, and from the Arthurian legend sprang Camelot, the hottest ticket on Broadway. See THEATER...
...Harlem's filth and fear, two 1960 Ford station wagons raced north on the New York State Thruway toward Tarrytown and the comfortable hilltop home of James Arthur Vaus Jr., an ex-convict once known as a wiretapper for West Coast Gangster Mickey Cohen. From the 'cars sprang a group of boys representing two rival East Harlem street gangs, the Young Conceiteds and the Untouchables. They swaggered to the front door, where waited Vaus, 41, and his first lieutenant, a Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. 32. who once served six years for shooting a New York...
...strokes a movement, catching the passing moment." To him, in 1900, the paintings in museums were "anemic, bloodless, lifeless studio daubs," while on the streets of Dresden, "life-noisy, colorful, pulsating," cried to be painted. Kirchner was not alone in his ambition, but of all the German expressionists who sprang up before World War I, few are enjoying quite such a vogue as Kirchner today...