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Indiana's chubby Governor Ralph Fesler Gates, who had helped send Jenner to the Senate two years ago, could easily see through Jenner's strategy. If Jenner were elected governor, he could resign from the Senate, name his successor, and thus get control (along with Senator Homer Capehart) of most of Indiana's state and federal patronage. He let it be known that House Majority Leader Charles Halleck would get first crack at his Senate seat...
Three years ago the Communists had joined the battle under the worst possible conditions. Germans hated Communism, partly because of long years of anti-Communist indoctrination by the Nazis, but Germans also had a deep-rooted historical fear of Slavs, which was further deepened by the Red Army's excesses in looting and vandalism. This barrier of German sentiment against the Red tide had been one of the rock-bottom facts in the cold war. By last week, the fact was tottering under the astute propaganda of the Russians...
...applause for Maria Helena capped a success story. Four years ago, a shapely, green-eyed girl with chestnut hair, she sold sportswear in a Buenos Aires department store for $32 a month. She liked to sing, finally decided to make a career of it. One day she slipped backstage at a Colón rehearsal, asked María Barrientos, oldtime operatic star and famed teacher, to give her lessons. Coloratura Barrientos took a shine to her, made her a prot...
...London Philharmonic Orchestra for the 18th time to cry "No, no! ... Back to bar 175 again." Finally, looking at his watch, he muttered, "Only two minutes more. My God, I must have this again." Composer Schnabel, bent over his score, nodded his huge, bristly head with sympathy. Two years ago, the Minneapolis Symphony had taken 25 rehearsals before it dared to give Schnabel's treacherous piece its first U.S. hearing...
...only as a concession to form. Said he: "I hate bars . . . [they] are like policemen's batons that strike down horribly, horribly. We must do away with them." He likes his melodies to "flow with no barriers, like the sea." He had composed his symphony ten years ago in the Swiss mountains, and likes to think of it as "glacial." But, he warned, "Do not try to understand it. Just feel...