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George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" is first of all an exceptionally poignant story set to some of the finest music America has produced. Such famous songs as "Summertime" and the rhythmic death chants admirably depict the spirit of America's most colorful minority, the Negro. The love story of the lame beggar, Porgy, and his sultry Bess is the main theme, which is surrounded with the life in Catfish Row, its joys and sorrows, its day to day gayety and the sudden tragedies springing from a storm at sea or a crap-game brawl. In the first scene...
...Camp Bullis, 20 miles from San Antonio, a couple of colonels* were busy belying this scurrilous chant. So were 152 other officers. They are students in the Third Army Junior Officers Training Center-a school set up by Lieut. General Walter Krueger to brush up his juniors (and interested seniors) on military fundamentals. This week the center's first class will receive diplomas from General Krueger, go back to their posts leaner and wiser than before...
...there). In some cases, they walk ahead of the auctioneer, are awarded their chosen baskets at pre-established prices as soon as their hands are laid upon them. The lightning speed of the auctions is another weapon: farmers are just as bemused by the auctioneer's chant as are radio listeners when Speed Riggs gives out on The Hit Parade. The manufacturers' control of these markets, the trustbusters argued, was made still more effective by their ability to stay away at any time, since they maintain 2½-3-year supplies for aging...
Harvard will do light opera, and the Yales will chant songs from the torrid zone, which they picked up on their two month's tour through South America last summer. But, reminiscent of early choral years, both groups will sing the lusty notes of traditional football songs...
While Queen Bess and other principals hold the forestage, for instance, village supers clad in sackcloth creep among the trees, unable to make themselves heard through the wind as they chant: "Digging and delving, hedging and ditching, we pass. . . . Summer and winter, autumn and spring return. . . . All passes but we, all changes . . . but we remain forever the same. . . ." They remind you of Evelyn Waugh; yet in Mrs. Woolf's many-planed perspective they are also in truth the nameless human swarm...