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Disturbance. In Mexico City, Valentin Gernilla Herida leaped to rescue a friend being mauled by a bear at the zoo, shot the bear, was arrested and fined 2,280 pesos (about...
Oceans apart (one man was in Berlin, the other in Buenos Aires), two amateur astronomers last week had independently decided that Copernicus had everything inside out and backwards. The earth, Germany's Valentin Herz explained, does not revolve from west to east; it spins in the opposite direction. Argentina's Antonio Duran Navarro had an even more novel idea. Says Navarro: "The universe, 8,000 miles in diameter, is contained within the earth...
...where distributed. Reader demand by itself can no more create a best-seller in Russia than public tastes can alter the content of the food ration. But popular writers sometimes get spectacular receptions, which indicate that Glavlit can guess wrong. For example, a 15,000-copy printing of Valentin Kateyev's Son of the Regiment lasted just three hours in Moscow bookshops...
...fans in Copenhagen's biggest concert hall, where she had sung Ciribiribin. "When the Iron Curtain descends on my voice," she had said, "I would like to be appointed Minister to Denmark." Meanwhile, there were more concerts to be given, a sick husband (ex-Movie Actor Valentin Parera-once called the "Ronald Colman of Spain") to be nursed back to health in France, and then a return trip to the U.S., where she intended to join the Roman Catholic Church...
Last week an exhibition of Klee's calculated naivetés opened in London's Tate Gallery. In Manhattan, a new portfolio appeared (The Prints of Paul Klee; Curt Valentin, $15). Its 40 etchings and lithographs proved 40 times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...