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When Harry stops playing it doggy dog, he and The Prospect Before Us unravel fast. A young Negro girl from a civil rights association maneuvers him into renting her a room in the Green Glade. As if on cue, the Jakes. Gils and Morrises, the banks and realtors all land on Harry: so do fragments of his own hotel tiles, loosened by an unfriendly hand. Stubborn Harry doesn't scare, but all he can salvage from his tiny, crumbling domain is a brief, implausible love affair with the Negro girl. Reverting to me-first principles, he sets fire...
Fear Deal or Fumble. The President of the U.S. entered the fray in a vigorous political speech at a G.O.P. rally in Washington's Uline Arena, took his cue from the heritage of Lincoln: "Let us not be afraid to be humble as he was humble when it was necessary . . . When it comes down to [preserving] this nation . . . let us be just as courageous as Lincoln was courageous...
Musically, nobody needed to worry. Coloratura Peters has a voice of exceptional purity and the kind of confidence and musicianship that critics like to call aplomb. Onstage for almost all of Figaro's 2½-hour performance, she skipped through Susanna's role without blowing a cue, delivered herself of some of the sweetest-sounding high notes to be heard anywhere. The packed audience loved her and the press next day agreed. "A direct hi., ' said the Daily News...
...Wrong Cue. Economic historians have too often taken their cue from the reports of royal commissions, completely disregarding the fact that the commissions were dealing "with social grievances, and not with normal processes of economic development." The picture they painted of early Victorian society "has become fixed in the minds of popular writers and is reproduced in my scripts." Yet, says Ashton, a careful study of these reports should have revealed another picture-that it was not in the factories, but "in the garret or cellar workshops that conditions were at their worst...
DUTCH businessmen, taking a cue from Britain's trawler dealings with Russia (TIME, Dec. 7), are planning a private mission to regain some of their former trade with China. Exporters, who anticipate tacit government consent, say they will ship no strategic goods, hope to do business in textiles, industrial machines and railroad equipment...