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...Patricia Bowman Show (Sat., 6:45 p.m., CBS-TV), is a fast-paced series of song & dance turns, mercifully free from television's usual determined chatter. Ballerina Bowman, who dances to such popular tunes as Over the Rainbow, is usually left too breathless by her own performance to do much more as M.C. than announce the name of the next act, e.g., a smooth vocal quartet called The Pastels. The closing commercial was as original as anything on the show: a woman's restless legs were propped against a wall while her voice described over the telephone...
This bluntly stated proposition left his Senate questioners a little breathless. Wedemeyer had been against putting U.S. ground troops into Korea in the first place. But once there, he went on, General MacArthur should have been allowed to do what he wanted, because "a commander in the field should be given no restrictions whatsoever...
...held aloof. The "breeze now blowing," said President Noah Porter, might be very invigorating, but it was no time to lose sight of older duties. Thus, for the next four decades, while the rest of the U.S. was exuberantly spawning new schools, new courses, and daring teaching techniques at breathless speed, Yale remained comparatively static. Not until James Rowland Angell blew in from Michigan in 1921 did the new Yale rise, St. Petersburg-fashion, where shops, lots, and dilapidated dorms had been before...
...Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with coyote calls and calf bawls, wound up an hour later in a high-gear, breathless arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite...
...critics' applause in Paris, sold nearly 100,000 copies in Sweden, was published in London, may soon come out in Argentina and Norway. U.S. readers will find that there is good reason for this success: for all its brevity, Sedillot's history is a bold and breathless tale of suspense...