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...Band Leader Lionel Hampton announced the names of the selections he would play at a Carnegie Hall concert: Be-Bop, Re-Bop, Oo-Bop, Zoo-Bop, Ee-Oo-Bop and The Crystal Suite...
...Ee gud grid Ksantel ong ong . . . What'd he say? . . . Mumbles says we've got to get rid of Kiss Antel right away." There was a knock on the door. With a reluctant sigh I put down my bound volume of Dick Tracy, muttered "Wait a minute," and tossed off the last swallow of a pre-season Tom and Jerry...
...acquire balance." Students sat in on rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
...Allen Matthews was the oldest man in his Marine company, and known to the rest as "Pop." By the twelfth day of the battle for Iwo Jima, only three men were left of his 32-man platoon. Then, from Iwo's craggy, ridge-locked plateau came the whee-ee-eet-whee-ee-eet of the moaning Minnies.* There was a moment of blackness, a scream, and then silence...
There is also the magnificent Anna Magnani (pronounced mon-yon-ee), who is soon, for better or worse, to come to Hollywood. Signora Magnani's style of beauty is not quite standard Hollywood; when she appeared in Open City, the reviewer for Variety described her as plain. Her acting style, too, is Mediterranean in its richness. But in her own vivid way-and in her knowledge of how to project her personality on the screen (this is only her second movie)-she is one of the most impressive women since Garbo. Lacking Garbo's peculiar, dreamlike power...