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...world's front pages. A smallish, dark-skinned man with gentle eyes and a fringelike beard, he led his Riff tribesmen in the last romantic war of this century. In the U.S., the vision of Krim's snow-white turban, flowing djella-bah and spirited Arabian steed was put to music by Sigmund Romberg in Broadway's The Desert Song. In North Africa, his tenacious struggle against the armies of France and Spain sent a throb of nationalism through the Arab world...
Goalies Godfrey Wood and Chris Steed-man, both out with the flu, joined Billy Lamarche and Mike Patterson on coach Cooney Weiland's list of sidelined players. Brandy Switzer (17 saves) played the nets for the Crimson last night while Weiland juggled his depleted forward lines to the tune of six goals and the varsity's 13th victory...
Mississippi is the greatest states' rights state in the nation. Mississippians as far back a 1944, took a firm stand against the socialletis platforms that were then shaping up. For 20 years, we have steed upon the sound foundation of constitutional government and states' rights. In the last Presidential election, our people voted unpledged and we gave our electoral votes to that great conservative, Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia...
...Corneille. From there out, Yordan collects vivid scraps of incident from the teeming, demi-mythological Matter of Spain, and patches together an opulent tapestry of medieval legend. In its final moment, the film rises to a vision of chilling weirdness as El Cid. strapped dead to his great white steed Babieca, looms above the field of his last dim battle and, scattering the heathen like smoke before the gale of destiny, rides thundering into Aceldama and the ages...
...Pollajuolo, whom Lorenzo de Medici called "the principal master" of Florence. His writhing Hercules and Antaeus, the only surviving statuette, positively known to be his, almost cries out in agony. Wild Man on Horseback, by Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello, rides with savage majesty upon a steed of extraordinary elegance. Though less renowned, Alessandro Vittoria left in his 19½-in.-high Neptune a figure of hypnotic power. There is no doubt that this small god could quell a storm with his anger...