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...backward U.S. country districts last week (and not-so-backward ones, too), "water witches" paced solemnly, holding forked twigs of peachwood, hazel, willow or witch-hazel, the butts pointed upward. Some muttered incantations; some prayed; some were intensely silent. At last the twig swung downward or spun around wildly...
Like the best of friends, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Mme. Chou En-lai-wife of Communist China's No. 1 negotiator-joined last week at Chungking's windy Paishihyi airfield to greet General George C. Marshall and his handsome, hazel-eyed wife, Katherine. Soldier-Diplomat Marshall, after a nightlong Peiping study of Manchuria's erupting war, was less impressed by tea-drinking at the top levels than by bullets in the boondocks...
...their rhythms by remote control, piped from the auditorium below. There was no doubt that Duke Ellington, twice winner of Esquire's All-American jazz poll, could still make more dollars dance at the box-office than such latter-day swing merchants as Eddie Condon, Lionel Hampton and Hazel Scott...
Since so much free publicity has been gained for Hazel Scott and against the D.A.R. in regard to the use of Constitution Hall in Washington, B.C. by Negroes [TIME, Oct. 15, Oct. 22], I should like to call to your attention certain facts which were given to me at the time Marian Anderson publicized this same situation a few years ago. Will you please corroborate these facts for us. Is there not a statute of long standing in the city of Washington specifying that Negroes cannot hire the use of public halls designated for white people? Does not the D.A.R...
Connoisseurs of the art of public relations guessed that it would be well attended, that Hazel Scott's Washington concert would also have a good house. The buildup had been mighty good...