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...need for funds. The film's chief purpose, says Kaye, "is to bring to the attention of the people of the world what UNICEF is doing."* There were no shooting schedules, no rehearsals, no retakes and none of the familiar TV tinsel and dross-but a lot of unfamiliar spontaneity and holiday glow...
...before her audience, looking sweet-faced as the college girl she recently was, smiling a slow, shy smile. Her singing voice is satisfyingly low, delightfully sandy, bewitchingly intimate, and her vocal style is almost like speaking, conveying a rare sense of lucidity and conviction. She sings many-too many-unfamiliar numbers, e.g., You Irritate Me So, This Is Where Love Walked In, Honey in the Honeycomb, as well as more recognizable show tunes and the kind of attractive oldies that always seem to avoid being predictable...
...chief historian for the European Theater of Operations under Eisenhower, Marshall led scores of other Army historians in seeking the soldiers' story, often under fire. Early in the Korean war 'he took leave of the Detroit News, to analyze the new enemy's unfamiliar techniques. Out of this experience came Marshall's best book, The River and the Gauntlet (TIME, June i, 1953), an epic description of the Eighth Army's 1950 defeat by the inrushing Chinese Communist masses...
...first to see the unfamiliar face of freedom were the young rebels. Their weapons at the ready, their faces filthy with the grime of battle, their clothes often blood-caked, they stood along the arteries of battle leading out of the battered city, happily jeering the departing Soviet tanks as they rumbled sullenly...
...soft body loses form and boldness, her sandaled feet seem flat and ugly. Palabaud dies peacefully in a hospital bed, his mind awash with memories of the sea he had always loved. A few shreds of his corpse are sent to the laboratory, where, under the microscope, "an unfamiliar aspect of Palabaud would be revealed: patterns of polygonal cells, sections of vessels appearing as small circles, granular clusters, trusses of tangled fibrils. And that would be the last aspect left to mankind of the timid vagabond of islands and oceans.'' Mortal beauty and even mortal existence, Author Reverzy...