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...TROY, N.Y., Jan.2--They call hockey Canada's national sport and the Canadians certainly showed why this week. A smooth-skating Saint Francis Xavier sextet from the wilds of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, blasted three of the East's top-rated hockey teams to win Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's third annual invitation tournament...
...with glasses. ¶ Warner Bros., apparently abandoning its own WarnerScope wide-screen process, announced that it would use Fox's Cinema-Scope. Warner CinemaScopepics now in the works: A Star Is Born (with Judy Garland), Rear Guard (with Guy Madison), Mr. Roberts (with Marlon Brando), Helen of Troy, Scott's The Talisman...
...within himself, the second with the blind actions of the mob mind. The Trojan Horse, presented second, is the better of the pair, because the audience is never aware it is hearing poetry, not prose. The play opens with the discovery of the Greek horse outside the walls of Troy. The Trojan populous, wanting to believe the horse is a good omen, refuses to heed the few who warn against...
...ruins of half a dozen cosmopolitan civilizations. Here, before the Turkish conquerors descended, the Hittites (2000 B.C.) first mined, smelted and fashioned iron ore into weapons; the kingdom of Lydia (whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer strummed his lyre, cliff statues of the earth goddess Cybele, and a wall built by Alexander the Great...
...placed in command of a corps. He was told the man could not pass medical requirements. Replied General Eisenhower: "Please send this man right away quickly. It's his head and heart I want." Ike got his officer (who, although not identified by the President, was Troy Middleton), and he "fully met every expectation...