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...most moving moments of the concert came as the two women, accompanied by a few of the best string players, poured out the double aria He shall feed His flock. They offered technical proficiency with their enthusiasm and tasteful musicianship with their good intentions. Only then did Handel's notes cease to be a hurdle and become an inspiration...
...Blue Angel is one of the few cherished pictures to which people flock almost everytime it is resurrected, and its plot is well known. Hard as it is to explain what makes any picture merely good, it is quite impossible to define the elements that make a picture worth seeing may times. It's not Marlene Dietrich alone. She's brassy and long legged, she's beautiful and gravel voiced: she's wonderful. But that can't be enough for motion picture immortality...
...Tories had scattered far & wide, and many of them had been careless about being paired in their absence (Churchill paired with Opposition Leader Attlee, since both were dining that evening with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich). Before the vote was called, the Labor whip rushed out to phone his flock. One set, who had been campaigning in two London districts for imminent by-elections, was easily found in pubs; and a group of 20 Bevanites were discussing their future at the home of one of them in Vincent Square. Giggling like schoolboys, they were all rounded up in the darkness...
...first FBI report. While he recalled no references to White in the report, Braden said: "I darn well took care that anyone mentioned . . . was not in my office. The White part would have been up to the Secretary of the Treasury and the President . . . There were a flock of Communists in the Government then, and my guess is that there are today...
After the long drought, the rain had a great impact on both man and the creatures of field and stream. During a storm in Oklahoma City, a flock of wild ducks mistook a wet runway at Municipal Airport for a body of water, and some of them cracked up on landing. In the drought-disaster areas, everyone knew that one rain does not break a drought, but farmers and townsfolk alike drew a deep, fresh breath and hoped. The rain was too late to help this year's crops, but in many areas it settled the blowing topsoil, helped...