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...learned to do in youth. Thus it is essential in armies that some method be devised by which the acceptance of change is considered normal. . . . The officer who knows nothing about the evolution of war automatically will be suspicious of change. . . . Our Army never has had a body of ardent professional students who were cognizant of the realities of war. . . . There are few enough capable American military students, but even rarer is it to find one of them in an influential position where policies are made...
Chock-full of a sense of social significance is energetic little Morris Novik, 38, who in his three years as headman at WNYC has made it the best-run of the 30-odd non-commercial stations in the land. A onetime rabbinical student, Novik used to be an ardent "Yipsel" (Young Socialist Leaguer), trained for his present job by serving as social director of an International Ladies Garment Workers camp in Pennsylvania...
...started a few days ago when a group of ardent Hitler haters decided to out-hex "Life's" pin stickers, and put a fiery end to Adolf. The originators of the plan picked Joseph P. Lyford '41 as head swami, but, thinking to give him a pleasant surprise, they neglected to tell him of his election until a few minutes before the announced time for the hexing. Then Lyford balked...
Tanyard Street (by Louis D'Alton, produced by Jack Kirkland). In this solemn drama by one of Dublin's Abbey Theatre playwrights, an ardent young Irish Catholic comes home paralyzed after fighting for Franco. One night a bouquet of flowers is mysteriously moved from his bedroom shrine to his bed, and the next morning he is suddenly well. The cure is hailed as a miracle. Thereupon the young man decides to renounce his wife for the priesthood, and she agrees to take the vow of chastity which will allow him to do it, even though...
Verdi: Requiem Mass (Soprano Maria Camgha, Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza' with the Rome Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Tullio Serafin conducting-Victor: 20 sides; $10.50). No ardent Catholic Verdi wrote this Requiem for the anniversary of the death of his friend, Italy's Poet Alessandro Manzoni. The Requiem's melting arias, its thumping drums of doom and trumps of wrath have been damned as operatic. In this recent recording of the Mass, Basso Pinza and the chorus sing superbly, Tenor Gigli sounds prosciutto (Italian ham), Maestro Serafin conducts with shattering intensity...