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Pres Bush is fighting an uphill battle against Ribicoff. A Yale graduate and a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman investment firm, he is the darling of Connecticut's large bloc of wealthy, tweedy, Republican voters who abound in Fairfield Country. He has never held an elective office, however, and must also overcome the handicap of being a "bedroom" resident of the state (his home is in Greenwich, but his business is in New York). Ribicoff's backers are incensed because of what they term Bush's anti-Semitic innuendos; he constantly refers to his opponent as "Abraham" or "Abe Ribicoff...
With George Abbott to stage the show, no character very long remains stationary, no telephone silent, no door unentered; noises abound, gadgets accumulate, throngs assemble. But what is offered in the name of comedy is for the most part mere commotion...
Spruce & Iron. In spite of its backward aspects, Newfoundland is potentially rich. The famed Grand Banks off its southeast coast, discovered for England by John Cabot in 1497, are still the world's greatest cod-fishing grounds. Newfoundland's forests abound with prime black spruce for papermaking; they hold the only big stand of disease-free birch left in Canada. Newfoundland's unharnessed streams can eventually yield an estimated 8,000,000 h.p. of electric energy, nearly one-third the total developed in the U.S. The rocky land is rich in iron; it has proved deposits...
Many of the men in Williams live in one of the fraternity houses that abound on the western Massachusetts campus, and will not be affected by the new order...
Fantastic stories about him abound, and Mr. Beecham is already well in process of becoming a legend in his own lifetime. Here is one fragment relating to a musical memory that is all but a miracle. Bending down to his orchestral leader just before an opera performance was about to begin, Beecham whispered. "We are playing Figaro tonight, are we not?" "Oh,no, Sir Thomas." said the leader in alarm, "it is Seraglio!" "My dear fellow, you amaze me!" said Beecham. With that, he closed the Figaro score on his desk and proceeded to conduct the whole of Seraglio from...