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...Vincent Impellitteri went an urgent cable to Madrid's Mayor José Moreno Torres, withdrawing an earlier invitation to visit New York City next month. Local labor union leaders who rate Franco as a fascist and union-buster had threatened to call demonstrations. Mayor Torres manfully accepted the dis-invitation but added acidly: "When I invite someone to my home for dinner, I first make sure I have enough food and a place at the table...
...plot furnishes enough action to keep the picture from becoming just a Hayward-Froman recital. It quickly goes over Miss Froman's meteoric rise to fame, the dis-integration of her first marriage to Don Ross, the plane crash that left her a virtual cripple, and concentrates on her comeback, during which she entertained troops in Europe. The story's weakest point is its lack of motivation for Miss Froman's love affair with John Burn, the co-pilot of the plane. Burn, played insipidly by Rory Calhoun, does not appear long enough on the screen to get across much...
...trio by Imogene Horsley, teaching fellow in music, is a logically built work with some excellent contrapuntal passages and often lyrical melodic line. Betty Churgin's Allegretto for flute and piano consists of the episodic treatment of two recurrent themes. Because of some weak transitions, the sections seemed somewhat dis-connected--though they were skillfully worked out in themselves...
Misrepresentation in yesterday's New York Times of current trends in scientific education did a dis-service to the nation by creating false impressions, Paul M. Doty, associate professor of Chemistry, said last night...
...snow-fly-fly-fly. She hummed an almost profes< sionally simple melody, and her aunt, a onetime supper-club singer named Sandra Kent, wrote it out. Marjorie's father, an amateur violinist, thought the lyrics were too repetitious, but Aunt Sandra dis« agreed. She landed Marjorie's song on g CBS-TV program last month, and later. Guy Lombardo heard it. Lombardo investigated and decided that it was true: Marjorie had really composed the song herself-without help even from her uncle, Songwriter Jim Morehead. In two weeks, orders for recordings have reached almost the quarter-million...