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Last week slim, dark-haired George Paxton, 30, joined the glossy fraternity of "name-band" ' leaders. Simultaneously, Paxton's financial backer began to look forward to dividends on a $35,000 investment. All in a breathless few days the young man who was unknown as a bandleader a year ago: 1) got the Glenn Miller trophy for the best new band of the year; 2) signed with Columbia Pictures; 3) added the Los Angeles Palladium Ballroom to bookings at Manhattan's coveted Paramount Theater and Pennsylvania Hotel...
...With breathless enthusiasm, the newscasters announced that the eight-day meeting of the Big Three in the 100-room Crimean castle of Livadia had ended. (They had a clean beat, for many an afternoon newspaper had suspended publication because of the holiday...
...sits down at the piano (he plays), probably never read this volume, but last week it looked as though he would not need to. The amiable Missourian with the touch of country in his voice and manner had conquered a schedule that had Mrs. Truman and Capital society writers breathless...
...Robbins and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein did for the Ballet Theater. Here again are three young sailors footloose in Manhattan, only now one of them falls for the photograph of Miss Turnstiles, the subway's girl-of-the-month (Sono Osato), and the search for her becomes a breathless, round-the-town, round-the-clock jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park to the Museum of Natural History, from Carnegie Hall to Times Square, from a flock of night spots...
Since college basketball broad-jumped from campus gymnasiums to big city arenas, the pace of the game has increased from fast & furious to breathless & breakneck. To meet spectators' demand for action, the coaches (who now rate basketmaking 4-to-1 over defensive play) have had to develop a pack of new tricks as well as refine the old standbys. As a result, the game is not only faster but a whole lot more complicated than it was a few years...