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Frankensteen was persuaded to abandon Reuther, flop over to Addes' side; he was slated for a new office especially created: U.A.W. vice president. The radical element in U.A.W. was to be let alone. Communists in North American Aviation Corp., who two months before had engineered a wildcat strike (TIME, June 16) and defied U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, and whom the Reuther group wanted to hang and quarter, were to be given a thoroughgoing slap on the wrist. The whole program was to be labeled "harmony...
...ndel-Beecham: Ballet Suite from the Faithful Shepherd (London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Since the singing eunuchs of the 18th Century, for whom it was written, went out of style, Händel's opera The Faithful Shepherd has been a flop. But its stately, gentle ballet music, resurrected by Sir Thomas Beecham, is still as fetching a job of periwigged melody as ever came out of the 1700s...
...luncheon of the National Conference on Planning, he sat red-faced through a speech by Architect Walter H. Thomas, who declared: "Most of our American cities are a flop, so far as being decent places in which to live and work. They are encumbered with the two bad twins of blight and flight and an attitude of 'who cares?' Philadelphia is afflicted with all three. . . . Instead of cleaning out our slums we apparently are waiting for them to disintegrate...
...second Broadway appearance (her first was in last autumn's flop, The Romantic Mr. Dickens), sultry, handsome Diana Barrymore, daughter of The Profile and his second wife, Poetess Michael Strange, gives unmistakable signs of dramatic breeding, if not of dramatic royalty...
After the show, the real Joe took the stage with his impersonator, brown-eyed, flop-haired Leo Brady, 24, who co-authored Cook Book with Faculty Member Walter F. Kerr. Said Joe of Leo Brady: "He's as good as I am. He's better than I am. He's even taller than I am." In his tribute, Joe was not merely being nice to a clever amateur. Young Leo Brady, already a full-fledged dramatic professional, wrote the play version of Richard Connell's gangster story Brother Orchid, which was sold to Warner Bros., filmed...