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...twilit night last week when eight bells sounded midnight aboard the British factory whaling ship Southern Venturer, breasting the sullen swells of the Antarctic Ocean, it meant "They're off!" The 1957 whaling season was officially open. All hands were ready for the first leviathan. Soon from over the leaden horizon came one of the mother ship's brood of smaller ships, towing a monstrous fin whale by its tail. Then began a mechanized dissection such as Melville did not imagine even in his most tortured dreams...
...blow up Baby Doll," cried an anonymous telephone caller to Hartford, Conn, police one night last week. The police shepherded 1,500 moviegoers into the street, searched the theater for an hour and a half but found nothing more explosive than the film itself, Playwright Tennessee Williams' sullen drama of degeneracy in the South (TIME...
Except for a few facts about his professional background, few of his colleagues ever got to know very much about the solemn, sullen associate professor in engineering that St. Louis University hired in the summer of '54. Born in the Ukraine, Orest Stephen Makar, 47, had taught in Warsaw and Munich before coming to the U.S. in 1949. He was a specialist in photogrammetry,* worked for the U.S. Interior Department's Geodetic Survey, later got limited security clearance for a job at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. By the time he arrived in St. Louis...
Latest to come home of the 23 American turncoats who went over to the Communists at Panmunjom in 1953,* they returned to the free world when they walked across the international line into Hong Kong on Dec. 2. They were penniless, homesick and sullen and they wanted only to be home for Christmas. The U.S. State Department provided the means: non-interest-bearing loans to cover their $636 airline tickets...
...After his arrest in 1954, Chapin got a routine psychiatric examination and was adjudged sane enough to stand trial. One by one, eight Massachusetts psychiatrists pronounced him sane, although one said that the sullen young killer was in the "early stages" of schizophrenia. The defense tried to prove Chapin a victim of psychomotor epilepsy -not necessarily related to insanity...