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Miss Teddi King (Storyville LP). A new jazz singer is news, and this news is good. Songstress King has a smoky-sounding voice that conveys much of jazz music's indescribable wistfulness, the birthright of Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald & Co. Among her eight tunes: I Saw Stars, Love Is Here to Stay...
...practical affairs." Not so Islam. "Nowhere in the Koran could I find any reference to a need for 'salvation.' No original, inherited sin stood between the individual and his destiny ... No asceticism was required to open a hidden gate to purity: for purity was man's birthright, and sin meant no more than a lapse from the innate, positive qualities. . . . Was not perhaps this teaching . . . responsible for the emotional security I had so long sensed in the Arabs...
...Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 21), staged some familiar oldtimers, but its new numbers were largely disappointing-and at times, plainly dull. Then, last week, Sadler's brought on another new one, a bucolic, mythological tale entitled Sylvia. "Magnificent," cried Critic Walter Terry in the Herald Tribune. "The ducal birthright of the ballet is made manifest." "A sumptuous extravaganza," announced John Martin in the Times. "An exemplary performance...
...Cantillon Told them, "has sold out to commercialism and allowed her God-given body to be exploited in the cheapest of ways, destroyed the home and the real meaning of family life." Moreover, she has "robbed man of his birthright by wearing the pants in the family...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Birthright, with Jackie Cooper, Everett Sloane...