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...same right. The Band's sponsor may have been a charity, as Dean Watson explained, but after all, the Connecticut Cerebral Palsy Association, which had planned the Rugby contest, is not exactly Palmolive-Peet. Apparently the Dean's Office and the Corporation, which ruled on the Rugby case, differ on whether to classify charities as commercial sponsors...
Fado singing seems to have started as the bitter balladry of 18th century Portuguese convicts on their way to forced labor and exile in Portugal's African colonies. Amalia's fado is more sentimental. It differs, too, from the singing of other Portuguese fadistas, just as Bessie Smith's blues differ from Pearl Bailey's. Amalia, who is steeped in her country's Moorish musical tradition, alternates a passionate, reedy wail with a tone of warm caress. She thinks that Rosemary Clooney's current song, Half as Much, is the closest thing...
...Experts differ widely and wildly over how many juvenile narcotic addicts there are, but there is no doubt that New York City has several hundred. Lashed by angry parents (TIME, May 7, 1951), the city has set up the nation's first fullscale, long-term treatment for the youngsters. The idea is to get them as far away as fast as possible from the atmosphere of criminal court buildings, jails and hospital wards overcrowded with time-hardened adult addicts...
...Loyalty to the state and hatred of those who differ with you," Editor Moraes decided, "are the twin props of Communism...
...report found that "most close friends are not gained through participation in activities." In the Interviews, we found also that this was the case. The activities of many friends seem to differ considerably...