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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uneasy weeks, white South Africans had tried not to notice the ugly constitutional squabble between Prime Minister Daniel Malan and South Africa's Supreme Court (TIME, March 31 et seq.). While the country celebrated 'the 300th anniversary of the landing at Cape Town of South Africa's first white settlers, government and opposition kept political truce. Last week the truce was over...
Barcelona's leading La Vanguardia Española praised the company's stars, Maria Tallchief, Nora Kaye, et al., and Choreographer Balanchine, who "does not sacrifice technical virtuosity for theatrical effects." But it concluded that, on the whole, the company's "interpretive rigidity is somewhat disappointing...
Blue Tango (Leroy Anderson; Decca). A sort of poor man's Third Man Theme, set to jolting Latin rhythm. This version by the composer triumphs over those by Xavier Cugat, Guy Lombardo, et...
...Winter Park, Fla. last week, the year-long feud between Dr. Paul A. Wagner and Rollins College (TIME, March 19, 1951 et seq.) came to an official end. Ex-President Wagner, who was fired as the climax of a quarrel that started with his dismissal of 23 professors for "economy" reasons, announced that he had settled his $100,000 libel suit against the college for $50,000, and had withdrawn his $500,000 damage suit against eleven trustees. After both sides agreed to say nothing more, Wagner fired a Parthian shot: "[I was] a scapegoat . . . I carried out the instructions...
...floors below. "Holy cats!" he said. "This is the damnedest case I've ever seen." The "damnedest case" is the Government's suit against 17 investment banking firms, charged with monopolizing the sale of $42.5 billion in security issues from 1935 to 1949 (TIME, Dec. n, 1950 et...