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...attack, the All-Stars were not napping. Schindler scored another touchdown. So did U. C. L. A.'s Kenny Washington and Clemson's Banks McFadden. But that was not enough. The Packers won, 45-10-28-in the most exciting game in the seven-year-old Ail-Star series...
Last week, as Atlantic City sweltered under the year's record heat (98°), the almost ail-American Youth Orchestra gave its first concert. Five thousand sunburned boardwalkers listened, quietly sweating in the municipal Convention Hall. As the healthy-looking, white-clad youngsters swung into a tricky Bach Fugue in G Minor with veteran ease, many of the audience began to think they sounded remarkably like an outfit they had heard before: Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra. What with pretty blondes, earnestly tooting their trombones and horns, they looked very different. The 14-year-old Negro Trumpeter William...
...Eberly, singing with Jimmy Dorsey, in suffering from Laryngitia. Does he call in a doctor? No-he writes Bing Croshy, who in supposed to have a cure-ail honey and orange juice confection... Good stuff by Lionel Hampdon, slapping at those who claim all musicians are dope hounds... Also by Coleman Hawkins for taking his band out of a New York spot rather than play music he considered unsuited to his band...
Hasty, exuberant, The Ail-American Front was evidently talked into the typewriter. But Aikman's analysis of South American economics, politics and states of mind is based solidly on a vivid air view of the continent (its great mountains isolating nation from nation, slowing trade and intercourse), on a perspective of 400 years of feudalism (the conquistadors having had, unlike North American pioneers, a glut of Indian manpower from the first), and on a good deal of shrewd observation on the ground. He succeeds better than most previous writers in conveying the fact that "our national individualities are shockingly...
...punch-drunk from the barrage of opinion and heckling which had assailed him ever since the beginning of the European war. The weeks had been telling on him, these hectic weeks out of which erupted the AIL, the Student Union peace poll, verbal battles in the Crimson over neutrality, and peace meetings by the score. Conscientiously Vag had tried to make up his mind about it all, to decide just what stand he should take. But a solution to the problem seemed to be always just beyond his fingertips...