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...Symphony. Faster movements, such as the final section of Tschaikowsky's 4th Symphony, generally fared better. Here, even though some of the performers were out of tune and others came in at the wrong instant, most of the faults were lost in the onward rush of sound, allegro con fuoco, and the resulting music was not at all unsatisfactory...
Even without the benefits of lawn-mowing exercise, Harry Truman seems in good health, although one of his favorite dishes, chili con carne, has been banned by Dr. Wallace Graham, former White House physician, now a Kansas City surgeon. Bess "almost froze to death" in unheated springtime Europe, now has a touch of arthritis...
...Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations" is successful. A letter sent to the organiza tion's members explains the drive: "If our allies are permitted to miscalculate, and vote admission of Red China to the U.N., such action could lead to the gravest con sequences . . . The conventions can prove to the world the universality and solid ity of the American people's opposition through the inclusion of identical planks in the platforms of both parties." Signers of the appeal came from oppo site political poles. Among them: Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas...
...they have a happy family, isn't that what counts?" The week's bulletins on honeymooning Playwright Arthur Miller and Cinemac tress Marilyn Monroe: ¶ In Washington, the House, by a lop sided roll-call vote of 373 to 9, cited left-leaning Miller for contempt of Con gress for his refusal to unclam about form er Red buddies before the Un-American Activities Committee...
Across the U.S. as a whole, polio con tinued to increase in its usual seasonal pattern, but at a far slower rate than usual, giving the lowest total for the disease year (April 1 to date) since 1947. Chicago remained the hot-spot exception, with a new case tallied almost hourly, for a total of 384 at week's end (60% of the victims were children under five), with nine dead. Of 26 victims who had been vaccinated, only two had had three shots; six had two shots...