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...instead about resolute marches to the brink of peace instead of to the brink of war . . . And another thing-the sudden Soviet pressure for a treaty of friendship implying that any agreement on Germany depends on the U.S. accepting this treaty calls for most careful consideration. We must not appear to the free peoples of the world either to reject offers of friendship or to submit to blackmail...
Among the virtues: a firm command of the orchestra, which produced a vividly mysterious opening figure on the xylophone, and two flutes that appear to bump and separate like a pair of slow-motion dancers. Chief fault: thematic aimlessness. After the promise of those opening bars, the next part of the brief score is limp and weary-a routine expression of Medea's mother love...
Trouble with Traubel. True, Sullivan had trouble when Soprano Helen Traubel, his operatic guest star, fell ill and could not appear. But this was no mere victory by default. The Sullivan show was enveloped when NBC began its 90-minute Spectacular at 7:30 p.m., half an hour before Sullivan went on. It was outmaneuvered when NBC produced a star-studded, revue-type show that Sullivan could not come close to matching. Sullivan was outscored in the Trendex rating by 26.8 to NBC's 30.1, the highest Trendex rating that any 90-minute NBC Spectacular had ever...
...Army had ordered the eight to appear before a field board to show "why they should be kept in the Army." They contended that the Army was preparing to give them dishonorable discharges for "preinduction civilian activities...
...much as the State of Maryland had adapted the old German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" to its own purposes. This suggestion, however, evoked sharp editorial response from the ever-watchful Boston Herald: "Leave the songs to the birds and Tin-Pan Alley." The Herald's plan, however, does not appear to be the most practical solution. Massachusetts' Official State Bird is, of course, the chickadee...