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...threats were not enough. In a froth of anticolonialism whipped up by the 14-nation Arab-Asian bloc, and with the united vote of the Soviet bloc, the General Assembly overruled its powerful Steering Committee (for the first time on a major issue) and voted to debate France's conduct in the troubled North African region of Algeria. The rebellion carried by only one vote-28 to 27*-but that one vote was enough to plunge the U.N. and France into dramatic antagonism...
...music business, having scraped the hillbilly barrel and blown the froth off the mambo craze, has taken over r. and b., known to the teen-age public as "cat music" or "rock 'n' roll.''* The commercial product, whether by Negroes or whites, only superficially resembles its prototype. It has a clanking, socked-out beat, a braying, honking saxophone, a belted vocal, and, too often, suggestive lyrics (spelled "leer-ics" by trade-sheet Variety, which has launched a campaign to clean them up). Result: a welter of hits in the r.-and-b. idiom (including five...
...said Funston, the market is not too high. Stock yields now average 4.3% v. 3.3% in 1929; stock prices, in terms of 1929 dollars, have risen but 68% in a period when the size of the U.S. economy has doubled. Furthermore, the market today has little of the speculative froth of the past; only 1.1% of the value of the listed issues is held on margin...
...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, the stage was set for one of the year's most interesting musical evenings. The program booklets pictured the famous, flaxen froth of hair and the powerful profile of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The text of the work to be performed was taken from low and lofty verses, written by 13th century wandering scholars, vagabond poets and runaway monks, collected under the title, Carmina Burana.* The music was by Carl Orff, considered by Germans to be their most important living composer. U.S. conductors also consider him important: they scheduled no less than...
...more than a modern comedy of manners that tries too hard to be something else. The plot mixes equal parts of a million dollars, a pair of eligible sons of the household, and a Long Island estate. The attempts at moralizing, however, settle to the bottom and give the froth an unbalanced weight...