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...Gallup took no poll on U.S. sympathies, but a pro-Brooklyn sentiment hung unmistakably in the autumn air. At the White House, Ike Eisenhower shook his head when he heard that the Yankees were off to a fast start in the first game. He turned to his visitor of the day, Adlai Stevenson, and cracked: "It's time for a change." In Missouri, same day, Harry Truman told reporters: "The Yankees are getting to be a habit, and it's time somebody did something about...
...Holy Old Mackinaw, Ethan Allen, Murder Out Yonder) Holbrook, a transplanted Vermonter himself, was suggesting that Portland should be Portland no longer. Backed by a committee of six, he petitioned the city council to let Portlanders vote on changing the city's name in a special election this autumn...
...result, as eye-filling as ever, was an example of what Sadler's Wells likes to do best: the full-length romantic ballet in classical style. The ballet chorus, dressed in autumn colors as peasants, in regal purples and crimsons as court maidens, in severe white as swans, made a gorgeous frame for the principal action. Among the brightest spots: Fonteyn's touching pantomime as the bewitched swan-princess and her vicious precision in her alternate role as the magician's wicked daughter; Dancer Somes's hurtling leaps in the court scene; a new "Neapolitan" duet...
...17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
Last week the government backed down, left decision to "a time when tensions have eased," perhaps this autumn, also made it clear that if sponsored TV is ever permitted, it will be sharply restricted by controls. Said one opponent of the commercial plan: "Surely J. Fred Muggs won't pop up again so soon...