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Alfred Drake's direction is generally aimless. As a contrast, in the dance numbers George Balanchine keeps a firm grip on things. The dancing ensemble is energetic and good, and soloists Peter Conlow and Gloria Patrice are a pleasure to watch. Balanchine's choreography is of the rough-and-tumble sort. At one point Monday night the orchestra trombonist looked a little worried about being hit by a flying chorus girl, but the danger soon passed...
...Tentacles. Through Continental, the Capone syndicate has a powerful grip on every big bookmaking operation in the country. The committee first picked up its far-flung tentacles in Miami. A man named Harry Russell suddenly appeared in Miami shortly after the 1948 election of Governor Fuller Warren. There he set about muscling into the S & G Syndicate, which did a $26 million-a-year business supplying Continental's racing wire news to its own bookies. Continental abruptly switched off S & G's service. After several days of futile resistance, S & G took in a new partner-Harry Russell...
...news and the President reportedly listens in. Ordinary viewers are apt to be more interested in the bearbaiting aspects of the show. Terrier-like Producer Spivak, onetime (1944-1950) editor & publisher of the American Mercury and the only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston...
...introduce him. After the lighting of cigars and swearing to the Legion's pledge of "100% Americanism," debate began. The national command had one defense ("Veterans are a selected group") and one tacit assumption: any change in the Veterans Administration would loosen the Legion's traditional grip on VA matters. Merson's forces argued only that the Hoover proposals would be more efficient. Cried Merson: "Shall we be rubber stamps of the Legion hierarchy-or shall we be free men, following each the dictates of his own conscience? Let us stand up and be counted...
...Larsen, 25, he had been barnstorming through a succession of Australian provincial tournaments for three months. Moreover, he got some expert informal coaching this trip from Adrian Quist, Davis Cup veteran and three-time Australian champion. In 14 hours of friendly drill, Quist helped Savitt improve his service grip and straighten out his hard, flat drives...