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...goes on tour. It already bas an extremely clever book by John Benedict and Tom Whedon, funny, often hilarious lyrics by Bob Schwartz and Fred Tausend, Charles Gross' skillful musical score, precision dancing--all set off by a talented, well-trained east. What is more, the various parts jell; the singing, the shuffling, the wiggling, and the acting are all woven together into one solid, colorful production...
...dungeon shook and the chain jell...
...greeted this plan with more apathy than criticism. But Senator Taft, who has as much of a vested interest in keeping the politician control of nominations as any other present candidate, has attacked the amendment on two points: the primaries would be held too early for candidates' views to jell (under the Smathers Amendment, primaries would be held the first week in June. Present conventions are in July, but primary campaigning starts in February); and the financial rigors of nation-wide primary campaigning would limit the chances of men without strong financial support. While the latter criticism is sound...
Died. Orator Francis Woodward, 67, multimillionaire Jell-O heir whose domestic troubles and "romantic interlude" with a nurse put him on the check-signing end of two thumping divorce settlements ($1,000,000 to his first wife in 1929, $42,000 a year to his second in 1941); by suicide in a plunge from his $1,340-a-month hotel suite; in Rochester...
Sabres & MIGs. There have also been the usual design problems. The Air Force doesn't want to jell its designs for mass production until it is sure they are equal to the job. F-86 Sabre jet pilots back from Korea say they need more powerful engines to conquer the Russian MIGs; other pilots say that the after burners on newer jets have not added the expected speed, must be redesigned. F-86 production is shamefully low. It could be three times higher, the Air Force says, if the U.S. hadn't deliberately spent its time & money helping...