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There has been editorial attack on Yale's "fraternities," but the News spent much of its space explaining why it, too, served liquor to minors. Comments on national and international affairs appear infrequently, and are of the crudest armchair variety. One of them, written after the Eisenhower break in the Stock Market, predicted an oncoming United States depression with the profound conclusion that "It need not be pointed out that if this nation suffered another depression of serious proportions, it would lose considerable influence in its effort to woo the world to capitalism instead of communism...
...Many Chairs. Rising to his feet, a politician shouted: "We all agree; the Prince runs the government." But after renouncing the throne, Sihanouk had vowed not to return to high office. "I didn't walk out of my throne to climb into a Premier's armchair," said he, insisting that the "congress" choose someone else...
...treatment for her headaches, is so unnerved by this classic gambit that she falls completely under Svengali's power. His fell purpose: to make a world-famous diva of her. Morgan searches madly for his lost love until, kicked by a horse, he retires to England and an armchair. Hildegarde, having conquered all Europe with her magic voice (dubbed in by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), now appears at London's Covent Garden. Morgan rushes to the concert, pits his plain brain and pure heart against the hypnotic evil of Svengali. Love, eventually, conquers all, and Svengali dies, apparently of mortification...
...tired of me. That is the Latin way." The attention of Peru, and of Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez and other interested bystanders, now centers on the manner of the change, and the man whom Odria will choose to sit in the carved presidential armchair once used by Peru's Conquistador Francisco Pizarro...
...Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges (soloists, chorus and Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Collette's enchanting ballet-opera about an enchanted child, which Ravel reluctantly finished in 1925 after years of procrastination. The child is throwing a tantrum when the magic begins: the armchair (bass), clock (baritone), teapot (tenor), fire (coloratura soprano) come to life to terrify him into better behavior. Despite its size, the orchestra twiddles and tweaks lightly, and the tunes are often as naive as The King and I. Performance: a knockout. Von Weber: Four-Hand Piano Pieces (Arthur Gold, Robert...