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...Alden Pyle, member of a U.S. economic mission. He is the "quiet American"-a Harvard man, young, innocent, good, humorless, a Unitarian. He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous and dedicated, but his eager virtue turns into fumbling crime. His idealistic dabbling in Indo-Chinese politics-he furnishes a plastic bomb to a local faction-becomes real blood on his shoes. "I must get a shine before...
...Bruin reconstruction program has been crippled by the mid-season drafting of fullback Vit Piscuskas, the man who sparked the Yale win. So the Bruins have had to rely on the good passing of quarter back Carl Leone and the outside running of sophomore Ken Kessaris, an exception al halfback prospect. Proof of Leone aerial efficacy are the statistics of last week's Rutgers game, which Brown lost 28 to 21: 13 out of 21 passes, for 19 yards...
Beaulieu, 201-pound fullback, is dependable when in good physical shape, but a trick knee has had him in and out of the lineup. Vit Piscuskas, captain and quarterback of the freshman team last year, has been moved to fullback to spell Beaulieu...
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has. been shown in 48 countries outside the U. S., under names ranging from SnÖvit och de Sju Dvärjarma (Swedish) to Snjeharka (Czech), with "dubbings" in Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, etc. Recently, to whet a possibly surfeited U. S. appetite, Disney announced he would withdraw the English version from U. S. circulation...
Toman and die Waldfec, by Vitĕzslav Novak, embodies the old German folk story of Toman who, betrayed by his beloved, cannot resist the decoy of the sidelong smiling fairy whose kiss is death. He rides to his bride in a ballad for strings with a background of contra bass. Learning of her treachery, his laughter whirls in the brasses; exhaustion succeeds; the love cry faints into the sliding enchantments of Venus Yertocordia, to culminate at length in a triumphant orgy of brutal discords. "The finale," said one critic, "is like awakening from a nightmare...