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Beauties of the Night (Franco-London; United Artists). "If a workman were sure of dreaming every night that he was a king," wrote Blaise Pascal, "I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who dreamt every night that he was a workman." Borrowing plots from great philosophers is a quick way to get out of the movie business, but this time the borrower is René Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million), a man as skillful with pictures as Pascal was with ideas. The result is a wonderfully natty little reductio ad absurdum-"all bird...
...some Airlines a "glorified puddle" the oceanographers have turned back to this "puddle" to seek in its depths some of the closest secrets of the earth.George A. HermannScientist (upper left) surveys small accurate scale currents formed in spinning parabaloid bowl as nozzle at right blows air into water. Workman (above) is shown adjusting a newly designed Nansen bottle for gathering selected samples of water from the depths. Observers (lower left) watch special experiment in bowl and (below) watch growing micro organisms in multicolored tanks...
...doctored the tree with tar and splints. In 1874, one resident wrote, "its crippled branches swathed in bandages, its scars where, after holding aloft for a century their outstretched arms, limb after limb has fallen nerveless and decayed." The molting season was on, and lasted until 1923, when a workman, while removing a dead branch, pulled down the Elm with...
Bill Wister, fifth tomorrow, meets the Yale captain, Dave Workman. Both won against Princeton. Rose is a favorite, having won Saturday, while his Eli opponent lost at Nassan. Paul Garrigue and Guy Paschal, seventh and eighth, both lost. Garrigue's man lost also, but Paschal will face A1 Englander, who won in five games. A1 Stone is favored for the Crimson in the last position since he won, while Phil Nelson, ninth for Yale, lost...
Italy's Reds dislike Mario Scelba with a special fervor. For Premier Scelba is a double threat: he leans to the left with a program that competes for the workman's allegiance, he is also the tough-minded Interior Minister who in 1948 cowed Italy's rioting Reds with his jeep-riding celere. Last week, as Scelba prepared to ask the Senate and Chamber to confirm his new government, the Communists took after him in the piazza and in Parliament...