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...Dum spiro, spero-while I breathe, I hope-is young John Henry Johnson's motto. What he hopes for, he tells his astonished Congressman Jack Fairweather, is some of the gold in Fort Knox. Impossible, cluck-clucks Fairweather. and just what would he do with it if he got it. The answer convinces the congressman that he has been catering to the screwball vote: "I've developed a process for changing gold into dirt...
...really surprising that the mogul's style of eating (he was putting jam on toast) lacked the particular characterization called for. What is worse, all of Mankiewicz's witticisms are given such arch delivery that one expects Jack Webb's orchestra to underline each one with a dum-du-dum-dum...
...made the accompanying sketch as she turned to another interlocuter and then asked her if I could have a few minutes alone with her. She said okay and then scampered off to the piano and sang a song which she insisted we all sing with her. We all sang dum-de-dum like we do in the Stadium, and she danced around while we sang. She's awfully cute...
...would have asked him to write it"). The second was too complicated. But the third, consisting of simple tunes with skeletal, guitarlike accompaniments, rang the bell. Composer Kay scoured source books for western tunes, came up with twelve of them, from Old Taylor, Rye Whisky and Lolly-Too-Dum to Red River Valley (which he used as a unifying theme). Balanchine took the piano sketch to his rehearsal hall and roughed in dance movements with his company. When Balanchine & Co. got back from a successful West Coast tour last month, the score was ready. Last week in Manhattan...
Waltzes & Blushes. After dinner the President and First Lady led their guests to the East Room, to the dum-dum-de-dum strains of the wedding march from Lohengrin. There was a short string concert by members of the Air Force Symphony Orchestra, and then Ike helped pass around the West Point song books. For two hours the Class of 1915 sang the old songs, with assistance from the orchestra...