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When the knowing readers of Down Beat and Metronome voted on their favorite vocalists a fortnight ago, Crooner Billy Eckstine landed safely at the top of both lists (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week a coast-to-coast Gallup poll reported that the man in the street didn't agree with the jazz fans. The popular favorite, after 25 years, was still Bing Crosby.* Billy Eckstine rated only tenth place, well behind such old standbys as Perry Como, Dennis Day and Nelson Eddy...
...word "Communist" may be used as a sort of evil wand by almost anyone. The afflicted, if he is innocent, can hope for a cure only by entering into a prolonged and complicated course of prescribed incantation. No exception could be made when the charge was leveled, a fortnight ago, at George Marshall's bright-eyed, energetic new Assistant Secretary of Defense, Anna M. Rosenberg...
...year-old steeplechaser Manicou romped in by six lengths to win the $1,120 purse. The Queen stepped beaming into the winner's circle, patted her horse, gave a well-done to jockey and trainer. All in all, she appeared to have recovered from the blow of last fortnight, when her other steeplechaser, Monaveen, broke his leg in a race and had to be destroyed...
...best to be said of Korea was that the worst had not happened. The U.S. forces threatened with annihilation a fortnight ago had not been destroyed, and were not likely to be destroyed. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker's rapid withdrawal of the Eighth Army saved most of it; the fighting retreat of the X Corps in the northeast saved most of that command, too (see below...
After a strenuous love scene with sultry Cinemactress Linda Darnell, hefty Paul Douglas, 43, who had some rib cartilages pulled loose in a cinema football scene a fortnight ago, went to the doctor to have his ribs taped up again...