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...Shot of Schnapps. Old timers could recall Hoppegarten in its heyday, the white grandstands looming above the green of the track, the white Rhineland gravel on the paths, the bright flags from all of Europe. Hulking Uhlans and tall, trim Hussars marched with their ladies between training ovals, stopped now and then for champagne or a quick shot of schnapps. Great horses from the royal Graditz stables raced against some of the finest thoroughbreds in the world in those good days before World...
...York's W. Sterling Cole, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, speaking to a Chicago convention of sand, gravel and ready-mixed concrete dealers. * Chiang is 66, Attlee 71. † The France of Louis XVI helped the 13 colonies win their independence; the French revolution came six years after the 13 colonies made peace, the Terror ten years after...
Louis Armstrong Sings the Blues (Victor LP). The great jazzman, his trumpet, and the voice that sounds like gravel tossed into a malted machine. There are a dozen tunes (originally recorded from 1933 to 1947), including Basin Street Blues, St. Louis Blues and Rockin' Chair, an exemplary duet with oldtime Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Other supporters: Pianists Teddy Wilson and Johnny Guarnieri, Trombonist Kid Ory, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett, Drummer Cozy Cole...
...Tashmajdan Stadium, in a tournament that was tougher on the officials than on the players, Russia's women's basketball team overpowered the Bulgarian women 65-46, won the European championship for the fourth year in a row. The referees called 63 fouls, ducked a hail of gravel chucked by indignant spectators, and were seriously disconcerted by the buxom Russians, who wore no brassieres under their uniforms...
...court advised Margaret's guardian mother that the purse strings must be tightened"if Margaret is to have any assets at all when she reaches 21." After picking up an honorary Doctor of Music degree (his second) at Temple University's annual music convocation, gravel-voiced Composer Irving Berlin, 66, who luckily has not for years had to sing for a living, was pictured as he good-naturedly obliged his hosts with a faintly recognizable medley of his hit tunes...