Word: versions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where the road widens slightly to make Akir's village square, Jewish children romped around a gnarled sycamore tree last week, playing a popular game, the local version of cowboys & Indians; it is called "Jews & Arabs." Watching them was an elderly Bulgarian Jew who was selling small balloons from a folding table. Fifty yards away was the two-story stone building where, in old days, Arab fellahin used to sit gossiping over Turkish coffee. Part of one wall of the Arab cafe lay in rubble. The cafe had been hit by an Israeli shell. On the undamaged section...
Explained the U.S. publisher, who has sold 425,000 copies of Anna Karenina in the past year: "It was impossible to publish Anna Karenina at its full length in our format, and we felt that a condensed version would be better than none at all. The text was kept in the author's own words . . ." But there would be no market for such an enterprise in Russia. The Literary Gazette said: "With wrath and indignation the reader throws aside this latest lampoon cooked by American literary gangsters who have lost all proportions in their savagery and ignorance...
While the two types are basically alike the English version is a combination of both soccer and football and prohibits many features of the American game...
Last week Ben & Joe were also turning out a new version of the Atomic Whirler -a beanie shaped like a plane with a propeller that spins when the child runs. Soon they will get to work on a brand-new idea-"a hat that stays still while the kid whirls around...
Down to the Sea in Ships. A fairly seaworthy version of the old whaling yarn, with Richard Widmark in his first sympathetic role (TIME, March...