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...years since he laid acquisitive hands on a wan northern Canadian weekly called the Timmins Press, Toronto-born Roy Herbert Thomson, 67, has collected 93 newspapers, more than anyone else in the world. This year Newspaper Collector Thomson branched out into magazine buying, was just about to close a deal for a big British periodical publishing house, Odhams Press Ltd. (200 magazines, newspapers, trade and technical journals and annual directories), when Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth King beat him to the checkbook (TIME, Feb. 24). Annoyed but undaunted, Thomson sat on his millions, waiting for another chance. Last week it came...
Scream of Fear (Hammer; Columbia). "You must be dead." the stepmother (Ann Todd) murmurs with sinister sympathy as the wan little crippled girl (Susan Strasberg) turns her wheelchair wearily toward bed. Poor child, she hasn't had an easy life: a divorce in the family, a fall from a horse, nine years of physical limitation and nervous debility. Then suddenly her mother's death, and now an anxious new beginning in her father's house. Odd, come to think of it, that her father isn't there to meet her, but then of course business...
...Well, let's have-like a class." said Duskin one recent afternoon. Subject: materialism. In ambled Emerson's 13 summer students-mussed boys in need of haircuts (one beard), and ethereal girls in need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef broth, casaba melon. Duskin snapped them awake: "I don't allow irrelevant statements. Your comments must either advance my thought or contradict it." Firmly in control, Duskin hammered his theme-the dispassion of Homer. "Remember," he said, "Helen makes it in the end. She falls back on Menelaus...
Last week South Korea's press, which serves a nation of 24.5 million people, readily conceded the point to Pak. "He was asking for a martyr's courage," said Editor Pu Wan Hyuk of the Chosun Ilbo. "We cannot expect reporters to be revolutionaries." Asked a reporter: "How can you tell the precise dividing line between constructive criticism and anti-revolutionary slander? It's better to stay on the safe side...
Last week's audience seemed more than satisfied with the current state of Events. Provided with a piercing, acid jazz score by Prince, the dance begins with a scene of total desolation: three men and a girl slump with wan, expressionless faces before Shahn's backdrop of a vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare...