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...book, Composing for the Films (Oxford University Press; $3), just out. In it, he tees off not only on the producers but on the public: "The practitioners of commercial music ... have had to deal with an illiterate, intolerant, and uncritical public taste, and they have had to bow to it if they wanted to remain true to their dubious maxim: give the public nothing but what the public wants. . . . The alleged will of the public is manifested only indirectly, through the box-office receipts...
...Conniving. Did he know that Roy Roberts, the supercharged managing editor of the Kansas City Star, had predicted that Eisenhower would bow to an honest draft...
...down to business, and with a fine series of service aces, drop-shots and volleys managed to keep his crown, so that he can profitably quit it (he is about to turn pro). The score: 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. When Kramer took a bow-unsmiling, grey-faced and relieved-he got a thin ripple of applause. When Parker bowed, the ovation lasted more than a minute. The new women's singles queen: blonde Louise Brough, who beat her pal Margaret Osborne 8-6, 4-6, 6-1. Then both of them...
Mater Advocata, the college literary magazine, opens its doors at 40 Bow Street this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock to introduce cinema star, Elizabeth Taylor to the Freshman class...
...dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables were amateurs serving a term, and parish watchmen were aged criers, of small use in chasing or collaring villains. Novelist Henry Fielding, while a magistrate, founded London's "Bow Street runners" to pursue criminals- the catch being that the criminal had to be reported before he got out of sight. The professional "thief taker" was not a public official but a shady individual who made a business of collecting rewards...