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...often been taken over by pop singers and made into hits (Tennessee Waltz, You Are My Sunshine), few country singers have made the pop charts on their own. But in the wake of Elvis Presley (not considered genuine country by the connoisseurs), two Nashville favorites have gone to the fore in the pop world's latest phase, "rockabilly." The successful practitioners are Ferlin Husky and Marty Robbins, both having their first bestselling pop-record hits...
With a half mile to go, both crews increased their beats by two strokes, with the Crimson still slightly in the fore. Then with about a quarter of a mile to go, Princeton made a determined bid for victory. From a 34, they went to a 36, then a 38, and finally...
Last week these issues once again came to the fore when the Second Congress of the Union of Soviet Composers convened in Moscow. Zhdanov, dead these nine years, still made his presence felt. His line was upheld by the secretary-general of the Composers' Union, Tikhon Khrennikov. a writer of popular war songs and operas praising broad-backed worker heroes. He set the keynote with an attack on "formless and harmful modernism," roasted Russia's great expatriate, Igor Stravinsky, as an example of a composer who writes for the elite, not the masses...
...preinaugural demonstration of his new, light, low-gravity-center train, New Haven President George Alpert last week savored the unaccustomed compliments of 225 guests, mostly newsmen, along for the ride. The Dan'l Webster, a nine-car, $1,500,000 train, powered by low-slung diesel locomotives fore and aft, was noticeably smoother and quieter than standard equipment though it cost only $1,650 per seat v. $2,850 for the conventional type. As the train from Boston rolled into the outskirts of Manhattan, it was right on time-in itself a subject for congratulations on the oft-late...
...Northern Democratic attempt to create a continuing idea and strategy group for the defeated party is a plan which has been tried unsuccessfully be- fore. The appointment of Stevenson might tend to give more weight to the recommendations of the committee to Congressional leader. Southern conservative leadership, however, which holds nine of sixteen Senate committee chairmanships cannot be expected to give in quickly to any demands to reverse its tactics of agreeing and working with President Eisenhower...