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BATTLE SUBMERGED (244 pp.) - Rear Admiral Harley Cope & Cap fain Walter Karig-Norton...
...Error of the fatal flaw," my foot! And I fain would use it (the foot) to kick the gobbledygook-talking diplomats in their hindsight. Only Lattimoronic "experts" could have failed to foresee the calamity that was bound to result from letting the Mao mob become the rulers of China...
Alive and Kicking (music by Hal Borne, Irma Jurist & Sammy Fain; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster & Ray Golden; produced by William R. Katzell & Mr. Golden) turns bright just often enough to accentuate its general dullness. It is a mussy show; its acts don't move in procession, they merely pile up like wash. It is also a mechanical show; it behaves as though the right proportion of songs, skits and dance numbers were just as good as the right kind...
...first songs Sammy Fain sent to a publisher came back fast. But that didn't stop Sammy. Ever since he could remember, he had wanted to be a songwriter. The son of a cantor, he was just out of his teens and full of pep. "I felt I hadda sell my songs in person. So I went to New York personally...
...offered one explanation of the temporary Communist success: "There are 190 registered votes in this commune. Fifty-six of them voted Communist at the last elections. With two or three exceptions, the 56 were all young men and women. Communism in the rural districts is the party of the fainéants (lazy no-goods). Young people here don't want to work any more; they don't want to work from dawn till sunset, as I did, and my father, and my grandfather. They don't want to bend down...