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...City Manager John B. Atkinson developed a halo during his decade in office, and he deserved it. Where once aldermen grew fat from their trucking contracts with Cambridge, city officials from kickbacks, and politicians in general from the hopeless tangle of Cambridge finance, Atkinson reduced city administration to a degree of orderliness and efficiency which any modern corporation would be proud to claim...
Kefauver, on the other hand, will appear at his worst if he is stacked against Taft. His anti-crime crusader's halo will look a little dull if he is compared with the monument of civic rectitude from Ohio. Kefauver's extreme "internationalism," his Atlantic Union background, will make Taft's foreign policy look like sober sense to a lot of voters...
...Beiderbecke Story (Columbia, 6 sides LP). Third of a series of historical anthologies, this set takes 36 recordings out of the collector's-item class, fixes Cornetist Beiderbecke's halo more firmly in place. Vol. I (Bix and His Gang) finds him at his freest, contains his definitive version of Jazz Me Blues; Vol. II (Bix and Tram) contains his most famous solos (Singin' the Blues, I'm Cornin' Virginia) and happy teamwork with Saxophonist Frank Trumbauer; Vol. Ill (Whiteman Days) has appealing solos by Bix and Bing Crosby, buried in a large dose...
...first table, just inside the door of Sherry's red, Edwardian grand tier bar at the Metropolitan Opera, a distinguished gentleman with a halo of white hair holds court during intermission several nights a week. Old Metgoers and off-duty singers pay him the homage of a word or a bow as they pass. Some of the youngsters recognize him and point him out to less knowing companions; even people who don't know him give him more than a passing glance, sensing that he is "somebody." He is indeed: he is Giovanni Martinelli, one of the great...
...TIME for a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.Christmas comes to Australia in a month when vacationers are thinking of holidays on the beach, to Norway and Sweden during their long, frozen night and to us when soft snows seem to form a halo around every light and candle flame in the window. For the Russian Orthodox Church, Christmas falls 13 days later than ours...