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Eluding South Sea cannibals who are bent on turning brats into Bratwurst, roly-poly Hans and Fritz last week reacted with their usual aplomb. "Vot's mit diss nutty island?" demands black-haired Hans in righteous indignation. Just in time, an utter stranger saves the brothers from certain ingestion. "Only for you," towheaded Fritz thanks their rescuer, "ve vos on der half-shell." And so, as it has since their birth 60 years ago, another bit of nonsense fell off the pen of Cartoonist Rudolph Dirks to save the world's most durable delinquents of the funny page...
...property--perhaps symbolically, a back alley--and spending the money on a spree. Mr. Barton's performance in the role is a little incoherent, a fact which may be excused on the grounds that the cute little Irishisms and maunderings about the homeland which he is called upon to utter must have proved thoroughly repulsive to an actor of his stature and experience. I am not sure whether McLiam means it so, but the heart attack which strikes Muldoon down is certainly a well-deserved judgment...
...Year story was tragically beautiful-if a story or an act of men can be thus. It made me quiver. And it also evoked a feeling of utter humility to read such an intimate, personal account of the Hungarians' fight for freedom...
...Vladimir and Estragon he presents two symbols of humanity bravely living on even though Godot--the word at least suggests God if that is not its meaning--never does arrive to relieve their misery. Some critics have felt that the play ends in discouragement and a sense of utter emptiness, but the two hoboes are noble to the extent that they can keep on hoping and waiting, and so far at least Waiting for Godot is a work of encouragement...
Although Athens intimated that Makarios had turned down the plan, the British (who control the flow of information from the Seychelles) insisted that their two emissaries were still "explaining" the proposed constitution to Makarios. If Makarios were to accept the plan, with reservations, and utter some noises unfavorable to continued terrorism, the British indicated, they would return him to Cyprus. Last week, to the dismay of the Greeks, the U.S. State Department put in a word for the British proposal as "a first step" toward a peaceably negotiated settlement...