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Change of Pace. In Hilo, Hawaii, Dr. William F. Leslie, after losing 1) one automobile in a tidal wave, 2) his second car in a storm, 3) his third new car in a dock accident, announced that he was in the market for a horse & buggy...
Some Argentines were not happy about what they called "a tidal flow of holy water." La Prensa published part of a manifesto of the underground Italian "Fascist Democratic Party": "Our aim is to export Fascist elements to those countries that will listen to them in their propaganda for the fight now going on in Italy." Conceivably it referred to Argentina, a third of whose population is already Italian. Replied pro-Perón El Laborista: "Our doors are open to all men of good will...
...problems of amateur theatricalism have never been demonstrated so effectively at Harvard in recent years as they were last night at the Rindge Technical High School auditorium. That Jerome Kilty and his budding Veterans Theater Workshop were able to rescue something from the tidal wave of difficulties which loomed over their opening venture was the most salutary observation to be gleaned from the world premiere of "I Was A King in Babylon...
...Dominican Republic had it worst. Like all the island's north coast the city of Matanzas got a hard jolting. But the tidal wave that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...
...Jeritza hit the Metropolitan Opera like a tidal wave. She sang the Vissi d'arte aria from Tosca lying flat on her face, the Seguidilla from Carmen flat on her back. In The Girl of the Golden West she rode a bronco on stage, and as Thai's she once celebrated her conversion to Christianity with a record high-jump that landed her in the hospital. All this musical whoopla endeared Jeritza to her public, if not to her fellow artists. Snorted Soprano Lilli Lehmann: "If you're a real artist you don't have...