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When recording stars do not exist, it is necessary for artists-and-repertory men to invent them. The newest, dewiest invention is a plump, pleasant-voiced 19-year-old named Jennie Smith. In the year and a half since she graduated from high school in Charleston. W. Va. (pop. 75,000), Jennie, who looks like the second-prettiest girl at a high-school prom, has taken on a new name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy...
...Defense Robert A. Lovett; and Sprague Electric Co. Board Chairman Robert C. Sprague-admitted the probability of substantial enemy success in a missile attack. Said one committeeman: "That leaves the question of what to do against this thing called fallout. Maybe in six months some bright guy will invent a pill we can all take, but he hasn't yet. The only thing we have is the thing we learned about as far back as the X-ray shielding. So it boils down to what kind of protective shelter against radioactivity we can build at a cost that...
...consider it competition"), but "you earn more as a conductor" than as a composer. "Music," Stravinsky explained, "is an organization of tones-an act of the human mind." For him organization began at the age of eight. "I was playing a scale on the piano. I thought, if somebody invented the scale, I can change something in the scale and invent something else-and I invented...
...only real difference is that he is a little older intellectually. In order to feel really different he must forget what he was like but a year before. When a classmate discovers that the truth is not always in the Bible, or that the devil did not invent Communism, the Exonian's feelings are akin to those of an older brother explaining that babies do not come from storks...
Labor foreign affairs spokesman Aneurin Bevan last night told the Harvard Law School Forum that "the world faces complete disaster unless some new initiative is taken," and that "the Free World has lost control of its destiny." He questioned the effectiveness of Western diplomacy, and stated that "we should invent other methods of approach. Ordinary people must now make the decisions...