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...Chevrolet brought out a redesigned auto that is wider and lower than last year's. Other improvements this year: a new Powerglide transmission intended to eliminate complaints of high gas consumption, a one-piece curved windshield, a moisture-proof ignition system. A new, higher-priced line, the Bel Air series, is designed to compete with such medium-priced cars as Dodge. Prices are relatively unchanged...
Schlusnus Sings (Decca, 2 LPs). The late Berlin Opera star, Heinrich Schlusnus, was an outstanding bel canto baritone in the '30s, when these 24 songs were recorded. He sings Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Strauss, with striking vocal quality and sensitive shading...
...There is a flavor of music about this place," said Serafin after he had met other members of the company and taken a good look around the unpretentious hall. "It is a theater with the desire to make art." For two weeks he coached the singers in Italian bel canto, worked with the orchestra, sweetening a pianissimo here, strengthening an accent there, whipping up a tempo to a swirling climax. Last week, on opening night, he lowered his baton on Puccini's Tosca...
Dorothy Arnold, sometime actress who divorced Joe DiMaggio in 1944, was worried. Joe and their nine-year-old son, Joe Jr., had been seen frolicking at Hollywood's flossy Bel Air Hotel swimming pool-and Joe's friend, luscious Cinemactress Marilyn (Clash by Night) Monroe, was also there in the unlikely role of young Joe's governess. Dorothy went to court to ask that Joe be ordered to stop taking the boy to places that are long on liquor, short on other children. Marilyn merely said: "I want to love and be loved more than anything else...
Time & again the Legion has been bled white, but the world's hopeless and desperate have always poured in to swell its numbers. The recruit applying at Sidi-bel-Abbès needs no identification papers, and may, if he chooses, keep his past to himself. If he is over 5 ft. 1 in., well set up and seemingly aged between 18 and 42, he will be accepted. Czarist refugees from Russia, Spanish Communists fleeing Franco, ex-members of Rommel's Afrika Corps, embezzlers and down-and-outs from all parts of the globe have sought sanctuary...