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...grinding, grueling job. On the last four unblazed miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice the entrance to the mine caved in; both times it took Schwartzwalder two months to clear an opening again. At last, in July 1953, Fred struck a vein of uranium, 70 ft. into the side of the mountain. "The Gei ger counter went right up," he remembers. "I knew...
...able to haul 53 tons of ore down the mountain and freight it to the processing plant at Salt Lake City. After three anxious weeks, Fred heard from the AEC. In the envelope were two $6,000 checks and a top-grade assay. Fred's mine was a vein deposit of high-grade uranium ore (only one other major vein deposit-in Marysvale, Utah-is producing...
...comparison, Ruth's story-helped by winning performances from Virginia Vincent and Harvey Lembeck-is entertaining, though at an inch-above-comic-strip level. It suggests that when Playwright Reeves abandons pretenses and writes to please in a straight popular-comedy vein, he may very well prove pleasing...
...polytonal fughetta and is interrupted by a hoarse dissonance that sends the whole band into a fit of laughter. The prom perennial, Stardust, is popular with Brubeck and Desmond because its stately harmonic progressions flow as smoothly as the Mississippi, allowing them freedom to improvise in their most carefree vein. Of course, they never play the tune any more, nor the original harmonies. All that remains of poor old Stardust is the memory of a mood...
Beauty and the Devil does, however, occasionally stumble. Toward the end, for example, the light vein is momentarily broken by Faust's sudden philosophic despair. ("The poorest beggar at least owns his own soul," he complains to his lover.) Nevertheless, the picture, enlivened by Leon Barsacq's lavish sets, is a distinct triumph of French joie de vivre over the sombre morality of previous Faust legends...