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...Chant of Croupiers. Next day bright and early, reporters were awakened at 9:30 by a ring of the telephone and a voice that said cheerily: "Good morning. This is the Sands operator. We have been asked to awaken you so you could get up and prepare for the wedding." In the Gold Room of the Sands, everything was ready. Newsreel cameras, TV equipment and flash guns lined the wall. Los Angeles Herald & Express Reporter Jimmy Crenshaw spotted a musician carrying a bull fiddle and made for Pressagent Freeman. "I got it in the paper already, boy," cried Reporter Crenshaw...
...down by slipping off his own ring-a large diamond set in platinum-and putting it on Yasmin's finger. Within two minutes the ceremony was ended and the newlyweds went out, as Columnist Florabel Muir wrote, past "the clanking of the slot machines and the soft chant of the croupiers at the crap tables." to the wedding luncheon for the press...
...onslaught was clumsy, primitive and often skirted the rules. In round two, when LaStarza refused to back off from one ferocious rush, Marciano just kept charging, butted a gash above LaStarza's right eye. Next round, Rocky caught his man with a left after the bell. A chant rose from the challenger's corner: "Dirty fight! Dirty fight!" A few rounds later, Rocky caught LaStarza below the belt, drew his fourth warning, lost the round for the low punch...
Masterpieces of Music before 1750 (Danish soloists and ensembles directed by Mogens Wöldike; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). Fifty brief selections, carefully performed and recorded. The first disk begins with the constricted Gregorian chant beginning with the 7th century, goes up to 16th century instrumental dances. No. 2 takes the story from large motets by Lassus and Byrd up through early Italian opera by Monteverdi and massive 17th century organ music. The final disk contains mostly Bach and Handel works. A scholarly collection, but with plenty of appeal to the ear as well...
After lunch, Ike and Nielsen went back to the stream, where they alternated between fishing and shouting boasts at one another. Early in the afternoon, they were spotted by a passing busload of children, who shouted the old campaign chant: "We like Ike. We like Ike." Said Ike, at once pleased and displeased: "This is a hell of a place to hear something like that...