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Once upon a time, the jazzman's capital was New Orleans; later came Chicago and Manhattan's 52nd Street. Today, the liveliest center of developing jazz is California, where a cluster of youngsters, still mostly in their 20s, are refining the frenzies of bop into something cooler, calmer and more coherent...
...with which their birthdays are celebrated. It took nearly two years for Russian newspapers to print all the tributes to Stalin on his 70th birthday, but last Dec. 21, when his birthday rolled around again, no mention of it was made. Last week Premier Georgy Malenkov came to his 52nd birthday (on Jan. 8). In anticipation of the great day, Rumania's Communist news agency, Agerpress, filed a canned eulogy of the Soviet chief to its member papers in preparation for the standard high jinks. Czechoslovakian editors also got set with big laudatory spreads. Soon both Czech and Rumanian...
Five years ago, Britain's Labor Party would have howled down such statements with shouts of "Reaction!", "Treason to the Cause!" Last week, when they heard them, 3,000 Labor Party delegates applauded vigorously. By overwhelming majorities the party's 52nd Annual Conference, meeting in Margate, chucked out a string of leftist proposals to nationalize: 1) the land, 2) the aircraft industry, 3) machine tools, 4) arms plants. In so doing, it confirmed what was fast becoming apparent: that "nationalization," the great solve-all of the doctrinaires, has worn out its welcome in Britain...
Three thousand delegates representing 6,400,000 members of the Labor Party were gathering in Margate for their 52nd annual conference. "It may be that now and again somebody will say rather rough things," forecast black-browed Aneurin Bevan before descending on Margate with his Bevanly host. "[But] don't let anyone make any mistake . . . When we have had our row and made up our minds, this movement is going to be a solid, united movement...
...Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet was the year's top skipper. Glowed Gene: "I gave this race to my dad for his [52nd] birthday present." Then father Walet bundled Gene and his victory trophy, a mammoth silver soup tureen, back to New Orleans, where, technically, the National Champion would have to account to his teachers for missing two weeks of school...