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...little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets a single side in the album with a galloping Fete Populaire. Both performances are excellent...
Last week they knocked off work, got happily into velvet jackets or laced bodices and flowing skirts, tapped 300 kegs and 2,500 cases of beer and had a celebration even bigger than their annual Wilhelm Tell festival. The occasion: the town's 100th anniversary fete...
...stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody had lunch (main course: 56 whole roast sheep), while Trans-Jordan's masses launched on a three-day fete involving much shooting, soothsaying, and the consumption of vast quantities of stuffed peppers with soda...
Last week Winston Churchill amid a five-day fete of welcome at The Hague made a proposal similar to Briand's. Said Churchill: "We hope that the Western democracies of Europe will draw together in ever closer amity and ever closer association. . . . This ... if found wise, should be pressed from many angles with the utmost perseverance. I see no reason why, under the guardianship of a world organization, there should not ultimately arise the United States of Europe, both of the East and of the West, which will unify this continent in a manner never known since the fall...
...bluejacket who spoke could make allowances for human curiosity. But this was something more. All week long, eager, smiling German-Americans (500 to 2,000 a day) had bustled aboard the Nazi prize cruiser Prinz Eugen to fete her Nazi crew. They carried dozens of white shirts, bags of sugar, cartons of cigarets, beer-trophies few victorious U.S. crews have received in any port...