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...light of its past glories but because it reflects the sudden high casualty rate among" TV's live dramatic shows. Others canceled for next season: the Kaiser Aluminum Hour, Alcoa Hour, Goodyear Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theater and Lux Video Theater. Among the reasons: the best of the TV-bred playwrights are spending more time working for Hollywood; sponsors have been trying to play it safe with "surefire" subjects and scripts. ¶ Arthur Godfrey, by now widely regarded as something installed in radio and TV sets at the factory, dropped his nine-year-old Wednesday evening TV variety hour, Arthur...
...Bernard Shaw even suggested that the early Christians anticipated it on their way to face the lions). The curate who wrote the famous words* in such a hurry was the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, an extraordinary squarson-one of the last of that strange amalgam of squire and parson bred by the 19th century Church of England. Now published in England is Baring-Gould's biography, Onward Christian Soldiers, by Anglican Clergyman William Purcell (no kin to 17th century Composer Henry Purcell). It is the story of a cleric who makes the busiest writing parson of the tape-recorder...
...describing Irish Gallant Man, unlucky second in the Kentucky Derby, as English-bred, TIME [May 20] has blundered and been unhorsed. The colt, by the Irish stallion Migoli out of the Irish mare Majideh, was foaled and reared at the Aga Khan's stud in County Kildare, Ireland, at whose studs in that county both his sire and dam were foaled...
...Reader Kelly that has seen the rump of his mount. Majideh was taken to the Homestall Stud Farm in Sussex, England in 1953 to be covered by Migoli, and returned to Homestall in 1954 to drop her foal. Since a horse is considered to be bred in the country where it was foaled, Gallant Man is English...
...into music." For long, palmy decades, the world heard Elgar's brassy paddles chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay to Aldershot. When the trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some of the marches it was soon to contend with-Communism...