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That really ignited Phil Donnelly. He flayed the union leaders for urging police officers to "break the laws," derided their "brazen scheme to go underground." The mere existence of the union, he cried, would "breed divided loyalty, suspicion, distrust and confusion." A strike by a police department, he said, "would be a rebellion against government itself...
Between warm afternoon showers, thousands of shirt-sleeved Cuban men and cotton-frocked girls trooped down Havana's laurel-hedged Prado. In brazen defiance of the armistice decreed for election week, they shouted the names of rival mayoral and congressional candidates. Sound trucks blared the notes of a conga, then broke out with political exhortations. In the Parque Central, dusky ti-1.trope performers attracted a crowd, then made campaign speeches from their precarious perches. In the sweltering evening, a great neon campaign sign, towed by an amphibious jeep, swam ghostlike along the harbor front...
Yugoslavia looked more than ever like a police state. Belgrade street scenes were like cutbacks to old newsreels of the rise of Naziism. Booted feet tramped out their brazen songs. OZNA, the Communist secret police, was supervising the election campaign. Tito's big army showed no inclination to demobilize...
...Disjointed TIME apologizes to Reader Bundenthal for unwittingly abetting a hoax, suspects that some brazen G.I. has found a new way of getting even with his sergeant...
...hero's restless introspection, its music is ample compensation. With no story at all, this two-hour concert of Gershwin music would be well worth the price of admission. The shimmering ragtime of many a half-forgotten early hit, beaten out by an invisible Oscar Levant; the brazen love call of the Winter Garden smash Swanee, groaned in all its original agony by blackfaced Al Jolson; Anne Brown's superb soprano raised again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate...