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Your story of how that city slicker (meaning Walter O'Malley) "took" the country bumpkins (meaning our Dodger contract signers) makes all other such stories fade into insignificance. We are opposed to subsidizing big business, which organized baseball definitely is, and we hope those of our citizens -for and against the Dodger contract -can get together and draw up a new one. One that will allow us to have this team, but will give this city a fair share...
...Modern Jazz (Arne Domnerus and His Group; RCA Camden). The Swedes swing lightly and flexibly through Topsy Theme, Gone With the Wind and other numbers with the air of men with their hearts in their horns, but in their cooler moments (Relax, Blue Moon) they sometimes seem about to fade off the record. Alto Saxophonist Domnerus wanders through some seamless lyric flights translated from Charlie Parker's and Benny Carter's books...
Last week the show put up its closing notice. Bucking giveaway shows, westerns, soap operas, and mounting production costs, Matinee Theater steadily lost viewers and sponsors, was losing money for NBC. In June, after its 665th hour-long program, the show will fade out for the last time. Likeliest replacement: a soap opera or two. Already dreaming up ten new projects for NBC, Producer Albert McCleery, 46, was ready with an epitaph: "I've been very lucky. I've been running what amounts to a national theater, the busiest one anywhere...
...fresh correspondence between certain mythological concepts and life today." The subject she chose was the endless procession of legendary heroes locked in mortal combat with such ferocious beasts as the lion, wild bull and dragon. Treated with religious awe and epic endowments in their time, such old heroes never fade away, still have power in art. Dorothy Norman thinks she knows the reason. "Why," she asks, "do such age-old concepts as Theseus and the Minotaur, Job and Behemoth, continue to speak to us with such undiminished power?" Her reply: "Because they suggest to us not some remote force...
...When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain as her beam song in 1931, TV-Radioriole Kate Smith has turned the lunar trick some 10,000 times. This week Kate will at last put her Moon in limbo. On her new MBS radio show she will open by warbling Swonderful, fade away with By Myself. Said she of Moon: "I've simply grown tired of hearing the song...