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...After the war, in token that he had been forgiven for the Finnish fiasco, Zhdanov was made head of the Finnish Control Commission. Finns expected the worst, but Zhdanov is too hardheaded to bear a grudge. At Helsinki's airport a glum honor guard of Finns was lined up to meet him. Said Zhdanov in Finnish, "Hyvää päivää pojat" (Hello, boys). The soldiers stood stonily for a long Finnish moment, then grinned back and said, almost in chorus: "Hyvää päivää Kenraali" (Hello, General...
...throne after his grandfather (Crown Prince Gustav Adolf) and father (Prince Gustav Adolf), was enjoying the best year of a monarch's life-his first, with the throne as remote as it would ever be, his world still a sharkless sea of love, and every mistake forgiven. But he was already being equipped for man's estate: from the mountain Lapps he had a gift of a shield, and from Cousin Count Folke Bernadotte he had a pair of gold cuff links...
...tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with him at the time of the murder. She was fired, married her American and they went honeymooning at Atami hot springs. A telegram came from her studio: in view of her "democratic sacrifice," all was forgiven, and the big role was hers after all. Fadeout...
Koussevitzky's reading of Brahm's First Symphony, which concluded the program, was a decided improvement and salvaged the afternoon. The conductor's accelerations and retardations are easily forgiven in light of his exciting treatment of this familiar work. As in all his performances of Brahms Koussevitzky strives for a cumulative emotional effect through the music and ignores the niceties of the traditional Classic approach. Although liberties are taken with tempi and choir prominence, Koussevitzky's Brahms is a good answer to those who insist that the German master is academic and intellectual. Brahms was warm-blooded and extrovert Sunday...
...Hollywood must produce 1) more Protestant films; 2) better Catholic films. Pictures like The Bells of St. Mary's, says he are so bad that "even Catholics object.' These films show only the superficial aspects of religion. The average man should be forgiven if he considers them propaganda. To treat a clerical collar as the epitome of religion is a mistake. There are people in the world who have never heard of Christ...