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Latourette, a precise, energetic, bald bachelor of 61, lives behind monumental breastworks of filing cards and follows a daily timetable so efficiently that he found time to dash off five other books* while beavering away at his vast History. Completed in 1944, the work appears next week in a new edition (Harper, $22.50) to meet the demand of scholars who have hailed it as one of the most important studies of the last decade...
Last week, Brazilian aviation was busting out all over. It took but three planes to start a commercial airline, and stock deals, franchise fights and cutthroat competition recalled the dash, vision and buccaneering spirit of 19th Century U.S. railroading...
...sledding, and some, like the Pigalle in Montmartre, have never had a hit. Many theaters, furthermore, are "typed"-the saying goes that at the Palais-Royal there is always a bed on the stage. At the Palais-Royal it used to be traditional, too, for a nude woman to dash across the stage once during the evening. That was what the regular customers came for; but they got bored waiting, and requested the management to announce the precise hour of the spécialité. The management obligingly posted a timetable over the bar in the lobby; habitu...
...bartender named Moe Green, hired to mix drinks for the Hunter College lounge, promptly invented a UNO cocktail (vodka, French vermouth, Swedish punch and a dash of orange bitters.) "It's a beauty," said Moe. "It'll make sour tempers sweet, and have 'em all talking the same language-if they can still talk." One Joe Forestieri, proprietor of a Bronx hash-house called the College Luncheonette, prepared to re-name it UNO Joe's. He explained carefully: "You could take it in two ways." Gate crashers schemed to get into UNO meetings with a vigor...
...bright side of St. Louis Woman is its musicomedy side. The show's only real dance number, a spanking cakewalk contest, has style and dash. The show's only real comic, Nightclub Singer Pearl Bailey, has the lumbering slink and lusty humor to turn two sex-salted ditties, Legalize My Name and A Woman's Prerogative into near showstoppers. The show's boisterous finale, with a frenzied crowd perched on rooftops and stepladders for a sneak-view of Augie's big race, has freshness, bounce. Lemuel Ayers's sets and costumes have musicomedy splash...