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Wilson Bigaud's Mambo (see cut) is a complex scene-showing the ceremonial feeding of a sacrificial cock-composed with brilliant simplicity. Only 22, and hungry for further knowledge of art, Bigaud leads the field in Haiti. He borrowed his not-at-all-primitive stipple technique ready-made from a book of Van Gogh reproductions that U.S. Critic Selden Rodman gave him last summer...
...Manhattan production (imaginatively presented without sets or costumes by the Little Orchestra Society), Mignon Dunn, a mezzo-soprano of Dag-mar-like proportions, made a fine, feline mehitabel; diminutive Baritone Jonathan Anderson made the best-voiced cock roach in history, and a vocal quartet called the Four Heatherstones supplied bacchanalian backgrounds. This spring Columbia Records will release an archy and mehitabel album, starring Carol Channing. But Kleinsinger and Darion expect the bulk of their royalties to result from the opera fever that has broken out across the U.S. among amateur and semi-pro groups. University workshops in particular have eagerly...
...they agreed to switch. Swiss Housewife Madeleine Joye's predicament was even worse. She had no cause to suspect that one of the twins she bore on July 4, 1941 was not her son. True, Philippe grew up skinny and Paul plump: they were "as different as a cock from a rabbit." When the boys were six, Mrs. Joye met little Ernstli, a frail youngster who looked so much like Philippe that she began to wonder. She questioned Ernstli's mother, learned that he had been born at the same hospital, on the same day, at roughly...
...disappointed Flanders himself but avoided the Bilbo pitfall--the residual sympathy which even a despicable Senator always receives when his traditional rights are violated. Tradition, for once, is working in favor of McCarthy's enemies. By holding hearings in an orderly, judicial manner the Warkins committee allowed McCarthy to cock the gun with which he seems destined to shoot himself...
While the whole "cock-and-bull story" had a ring of the past in it, Oppenheimer's association with the Red-tainted Chevalier did not. He testified that when he was in Paris last December...