Word: franticness
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Broadway Showman Billy Rose found himself co-starred with unwanted billing in an impromptu extravaganza featuring a part-time pal, blonde Actress Joyce Mathews, twice married to No. 1 Television Comedian Milton Berle and twice divorced. The show opened when Manhattan cops answered a frantic call from Rose. Joyce had locked herself in a bathroom of his luxurious private apartment over the Ziegfeld Theater. When the police arrived, Rose shrilled a few stage directions ("Don't tell any reporters about this! I want no publicity. It could ruin me! Please, no publicity."), then led the way to the barricaded...
Declared China's "Peace Committee" (which is in charge of the current frantic campaign to force war contributions out of every man, woman & child in China to buy airplanes, tanks, artillery): "We should bear in mind that an armistice would leave the American aggressors still in occupation of Chinese Taiwan, still preparing to conclude a separate peace treaty with Japan, and still engaged in rearming Japan...
...What a day! What a battle! A fireworks, an explosion, six hours of relentless fighting, six hours of violent breakaways, of frantic pursuits, of spectacular escapes!" This had nothing to do with Korea or Indo-China. It was a French sportwriter just wanning up to the famed...
...Italy last week, the Russians were all over the place. Ballerina Galina Ulanova (TIME, June 25) had another frantic success at Milan's La Scala. Romans were astonished at the formidable power and technique of Pianist Emil Ghilels, 35. And in Florence for the first time, an audience of 2,700 heard a 42-year-old violinist, now rated the equal of Heifetz, Menuhin, Szigeti and Milstein. His name: David Oistrakh...
...Reds last week were making frantic effort to whip up enthusiasm for the Korean "volunteer" action. They were trying hard to convince the Chinese people that the U.S. is their enemy. Mass meetings, parades, plays, street-corner posters and soap-box orators painted the U.S. in the blackest patterns. A Shanghai revue, playing to packed houses, depicted the brutal forces of U.S. imperialism descending on unarmed Korea and closed with a glimpse of John Foster Dulles plotting Japanese rearmament with Premier Yoshida. At railway stations there was rally after rally hailing soldiers on their way to fight the imperialists...