Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome. Some rhymes, they found, are at least as old as the city of Rome. Horace described little children playing Rex erit qul recte faciet-the first version of "I'm the king of the castle." Petronius heard a small boy say Bucca, bucca, quot sunt hie?, which later became "Buck she, buck she, buck / How many fingers do I hold up?" At least one rhyme in nine, say the Opies, was known in the time of Charles I; a good half are at least 200 years...
...Record of the Year": How High the Moon (The Les Paul-Mary Ford version...
...Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens' masterly version of Dreiser's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept...
...Holy Sinner, by Thomas Mann. A medieval version of the Oedipus legend with a happy ending; retold with affectionate irony and a new twist or two (TIME, Sept...
Already out is Associate Professor Albert J. Guerard's "Andre Gide." In the appendix, Guerard publishes two letters from Gide who read a preliminary version of the book. During the fall a biography of Lloyd George will be printed, written by Thomas Jones, who was deputy secretary of the British Cabinet during his premiership...