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...midnight and from high above, the most spread-out city in America [Los Angeles] appeared like an infinite garden of lights, with just the touch of fantasy-within-symmetry which is suitable to a garden à la française. When one looks at things in America from above, one is sure to find them beautiful. I think that is proof that they are beautiful...
Wish You Were Here (Fran Warren; M-G-M). Sultry Songstress Warren sighs and moans her way through the title song of Broadway's newest musical...
...Communists in 1939, Professor André Bonnard has become a sort of Swiss pocket edition of the Red Dean of Canterbury. A son of a wealthy Lausanne family and a respected Greek scholar (his translation of Antigone was played last fall at Paris's Comédie Française), Professor Bonnard has one eccentricity-he heads the Swiss branch of the Red-run World Peace Partisans. Last week the Swiss Federal Council, Switzerland's national executive body, announced that it regards Professor Bonnard's activities as more than eccentric...
...veteran bomber pilot who won Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II. Shuttleworth was charged with "scandalous behavior, unbecoming to an officer and gentleman," because he had 1) chucked a bottle of mixed pickles at a photograph of South Africa's Nationalist Defense Minister François Christiaan Erasmus, and 2) dropped the offending photograph into a nearby fishpond...
...been an uphill fight, the old-timers reminded themselves nostalgically, but nowadays modern music is almost commonplace in such countries as France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the U.S. Was there really any need for I.S.C.M. any more? Pierre Capdevielle, music chief of Radiodiffusion Française, was handed the presidency. He politely declined. So far as he was concerned, Capdevielle implied, I.S.C.M. could shut up shop...