Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks for a great story on the Washington Senators' "Awesome Foursome," the "Killers' Row" of current baseball [July 20]. The diehard fans of this team finally have something to keep their hopes alive. Even Casey Stengel takes cover when the Senators arrive...
...cannot buy friends. We were once told that foreign aid would stop Communism. Now we are told it is our duty to buy our way of life for countries all over the world. But we cannot in fact improve their living standards by as much as one per cent even if we should give away everything...
Donald Cerulli and Rennie Brown are properly pompous and gossipy as family hangers-on and Linda Avitabile, though less successful as Fanny Cavendish, has her moments. Alvin Cohen is evidence that a good actor will make something thorough even out of a non-speaking bit part...
Tongko, speaking on Filipino-American relations, pointed to the fact that while the U.S. has given more aid to countries traditionally less friendly, even former enemies, it has made an economic puppet of the Philippines. Rather than appear as debtor, his country has now been trying to collect the "omnibus claims against the U.S., both moral and legal, running back...
...evening's novelty was Tucker's own Suite for Violin and Piano (1956). This four-movement work is a good deal more serious in character than most suites; it even dares to end with a slow movement. Though modern in style, it is still quite tonal, and its varied timbres are always fascinating...