Word: hit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giuliano's reaction to all the hubbub ran true to form. While the police prepared for the manhunt, his 20 or so men staged two more hit & run raids on police barracks, raising the total police and carabinieri killings attributed to them to an even 100. In a new letter to the Palermo press Giuliano proposed: "Let us give the judgment to the people of Sicily and have a poll. If the people condemn me, I promise that I will resign. But if the people want me, I want to follow my destiny...
This time, the plot was fully hatched; except for the sharp-eared intelligence service of Minister of Government and Justice Alfredo Mollinedo, it might have overthrown elegant, bearded Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia before he knew what had hit him. Hearing rumblings of the plot, Mollinedo moved fast. In La Paz, he arrested most of M.N.R.'s underground general staff; he also captured rifles, submachine guns, ammunition, grenades and documents listing the rebel "government" that was to be headed by exiled M.N.R. Chieftain Víctor Paz Estenssoro...
...Biggest hit was a piece Goossens had brought with him, "a piece ... for Australia to be proud of." Concertgoers got a kick out of the program notes of John Antill's ballet suite Corroboree (aborigine for get-together): "Much usage of boomerang, spear and fire sticks." But its savage and original rhythms and percussive effects excited them to an ovation when it was over, though a member of the orchestra said, "From within, it sounds only like noise...
Jolson Sings Again (Sidney Buchman; Columbia) is the predictable sequel to The Jolson Story, which three years ago became, to almost everybody's surprise, a smash boxoffice hit. The Jolson Story had wide repercussions in show business. It put the old Jolson songs of the '20s on the nation's jukeboxes. It gave Jolson himself, sixtyish and almost forgotten, new fame & fortune...
...with the political commissar. Once, when Chapman started a newspaper, the party members on the staff politely printed what he wrote, then burned the entire second issue and never printed another. That reduced Chapman's cultural contributions to yodeling and Eskimo songs, which always made a great hit...