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DURHAM, New Hampshire, May 17--The varsity lacrosse team's travelling squad won its last breather of the season this afternoon, pounding out a 10 to 4 victory over a crippled University of New Hampshire...
...Stan Kenton flapped his arms like a scarecrow in a hurricane as the 38-piece band blasted out a "montage" of the jazzed-up dissonances that Kentonites have slavered over since 1941: Artistry in Percussion, Opus in Pastels, Artistry Jumps. Every once in a while he gave them a breather: blonde June Christy came onstage and cooed Get Happy, Lonesome Road and I'll Remember April. Most of the time it was a bewildering battle between the violins, violas and cellos on one side and the bursting brasses on the other. Kenton himself admitted that there was room...
...watch on the growing troubles on the union front (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and a sharp increase in seasonal unemployment that boosted the jobless to 4,480,000, highest since the war. Until the labor troubles were settled, Wall Streeters thought it likely that the bull market might take a breather...
...tradition of his Colonel father, killed on The 'Canal. The young man's lack of adjustment causes all sorts of bad feeling, but is resolved in very moving fashion. Sergeant Wayne gets his just as Old Glory goes up over Mount Surabachi, and his squad takes a breather to read an unfinished letter he has been writing his little boy. The young man is so moved by this epistle that he forgets his neurosis and takes over the remnants of the squad, leading them off into the smoke of battle once more...
...with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap man's The Jungle Is Neutral, an expertly written story of his life as a guerrilla soldier in Japanese-held Malaya. Detractors and worshipers of F.D.R. took a relative breather. The opening of most of his personal papers to researchers next March probably meant an approaching rain of biographical books: John Gunther's inside F.D.R. had already been announced. But only the President's wife and his secretary had much to add in 1949. In F.D.R., My Boss...