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ARLINGTON, VA. (pop. 178,500), historic site of Robert E. Lee's mansion, National Cemetery with graves of Civil War generals, and of 3,802 Negro refugees from Confederacy, Tomb of Unknown Soldier World Wars I and II; a pleasant bedroom suburb of Washington, D.C.; many Federal Government workers from North, many new white refugees from Washington's integrated school system, now 73% Negro...
...Robbins teamed up with an unknown composer named Leonard Bernstein to put together a strictly Stateside ballet about sailors on shore leave. When it opened, Fancy Free (later blown up into the smash musical On the Town) became one of the greatest ballet hits in history. After that Jerry almost always had a hit. His serious ballets (Age of Anxiety, The Cage, Afternoon of a Faun) are untarnished by time, and his dance interludes for musical shows-notably the monumental madness of the Mack Sennett sequence in High Button Shoes-revitalized Broadway ballet...
...Gloucestershire clergyman and blessed with a private income, Ralph Vaughan Williams was never a man in a hurry. Not until his 35th year, when his Walt Whitman cantata Toward the Unknown Region was performed (1907), did he attract any real attention; by then he was already six years a Mus.D. from Cambridge. He wrote his first ballet (Old King Cole] at 51, his first film score (49th Parallel) at 68. Ever eager to try his hand at something new, he surprised Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler with a Romance for Harmonica with orchestral accompaniment. By then Composer Williams...
...neither the submarine nor the submariner. It is the submarine's element, the sea itself-12 million sq. mi. of ocean surface in the North Atlantic alone. Surface surveillance, given enough men and equipment as well as allied cooperation, is a technical possibility. But it is of the unknown depths of the sea, the mysteries of the 2 billion-year-old undersea world, that man knows pitifully little. More is known of the near side of the moon than of the ocean floor...
...Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer; United Artists). Throw together a couple of unknown film writers, an original screenplay never tested in bookstalls, on television or on the stage, a budget of less than $1,000,000 to cover the cost of old-fashioned black-and-white photography and monophonic sound, and what bubbles up? For Producer-Director Stanley Kramer, at 44 one of the most skillful chefs in the business, the result of putting such ingredients together is savory cinema, free of froth and sharply seasoned...