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...coattails were broadest in the most heavily urban area of the U.S.-the Northeast. In Connecticut, Republican Edwin H. May Jr. solidly carried the industrial First District. Democratic Senatorial Candidate Thomas Dodd's old stamping ground, and thereby snatched away from the Democrats the only one of Connecticut's six House seats that remained in Democratic hands after 1954. (In the heavily Italian Third District, which centers on New Haven, Democrat Robert Giaimo waited only 47 minutes after the polls had closed before conceding that Republican Albert Cretella had won a third term...
Most of the cast seemed infected by the professor's indiscretions, overdoing the broadest points, throwing away the few finer ones. Sylvia Stahlman (Eurydice) had the prettiest voice, at its best in The Old Time Religion ("Bacchus my king, O let's be romantic"), and Hiram Sherman (Jupiter) hammed his part happily, right down to losing his hula skirt. Musico-medienne Paula Laurence was the most professional of all as Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt...
...topcoat, emerged into Winsley Street after a visit to the British Electricity Authority headquarters, a surging crowd was gathered in the street to see him. Scores of female garmentworkers hung out of the windows across the street to catch a glimpse. When Malenkov raised his hand and grinned his broadest, the walls echoed with a welcoming cheer. "He was so clean-cut," one sewing-machine operator told a reporter later, "he looked like an American." "Like Charles Laughton," gushed another, "only younger and more jovial...
...million spent by the oil-processing industry in 1955 for capital improvements. 15% went for automation. Manufacturers of automatic controls last week estimated that they have installed automated equipment in 100.000 U.S. manufacturing plants during the last few years, "yet hardly scratched the surface." After the broadest survey yet on automation's markets, the American Society of Tool Engineers reported that automation will account for 18% of metalworkers' equipment orders this year. In the aircraft industry one-fifth of all money spent for equipment this year will go for pushbutton machines; one-third of the automakers...
...almost 50 years ago to the month that Artur Rubinstein first played in Carnegie Hall (a mere coincidence, he insists-"I hate anniversaries"). In that half century he has grown from a prodigy to a musical playboy to a great artist with the broadest popular following of any front-rank musician in the world. The compact dignity of his entrances, his ramrod back and frizzled grey crown, his highhanded hammering of the keyboard are known and loved wherever there are pianos...