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...which he uses without oratorical tricks. In interviews with foreign correspondents (which he gives readily) he is quiet-spoken, impassive, with no trace of emotion except, occasionally, a quick, bland smile that, says one correspondent, "crinkles his face like that of a boy who knows where the pot of jam is hidden." When talking, he likes to make a little cage of his hands, fingertips against fingertips...
Never Again! The West's foreign ministers did not take all this sitting down. Instead, they did what foreign ministers now do when they get in a jam: hop a plane. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, on his way to Pakistan for a meeting of the SEATO council, had planned a swing through the Middle East to shore up Britain's wobbly prestige. Glubb's ejection caught him in Cairo in the awkward moment of conferring with Egypt's triumphant Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been energetically egging King Hussein on. Crowed...
Father Calkins grinned. "My own hobby is jazz piano," he said. "Looks like you and I might have some good jam sessions together here at the monastery." They have...
Back in the U.S. in 1940, Whitey soon was in another jam, arrested for passing bad checks. He was freed next morning when the judge turned out to be a sympathetic fellow member of the Quiet Birdmen, an aviators' club...
...Music next month; 4) a symphony, his third, which the Boston Symphony Orchestra expects to play in March. The Louisville Orchestra, under Robert Whitney, premiered the cantata-really a solo aria the size of a full-grown concerto. Titled Idyll of Theocritus, it was even more imposing than previous jam Sessions...