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...front of the box office, and scalpers set the price of seats at $30. When Mitropoulos arrived four hours late at Athens' airport, after a bumpy flight from Naples, hundreds of admirers greeted him with cries of "Yassou, yassou-Hello, hello." and thrust bunches of tuberoses and laurel into his arms. But the maestro was in no mood for adulation. "I was sick as a dog," he blurted into a microphone, "and I still feel ill. I'm very happy to be back. Now please let me pass...
...tumultuous convention in the government-owned Manila Hotel gave complete power to a Magsaysay-controlled executive committee to select a nine-man senatorial slate from the 55 candidates nominated on the floor. Then the 900 Nationalist delegates listened passively to a passionate speech by old Party Leader Jose P. Laurel, affirming his loyalty to Magsaysay but nominating his old friend Recto for a place on the party ticket. But Recto had little expectation that the executive committee would have him. He would run for the Senate anyway, possibly as an independent, he announced but he did not sound optimistic. Even...
...Suzanne Danco, soprano; Union Chorale de la Tour-de-Peilz; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Debussy's incidental music to D'Annunzio's mystery play of 1911. Its five scenes: Court of Lilies, the Magic Chamber, Council of the False Gods, the Stricken Laurel and Paradise. Debussy's vaporous music is ideal for the eerie atmosphere of miracles and superstition, and there are some exquisite songs sung in Danco's exquisite soprano...
...forced to eat an expensive diet of crow last week. Four years ago, in its attempt to take over the defense of Negro Rapist Willie McGee and use the case for party propaganda (TIME, May 14, 1951) the Worker printed an "exclusive." It charged that Mrs. Willette Hawkins, the Laurel (Miss.) housewife who accused McGee, had actually "forced an illicit affair on him for more than four years and suddenly shouted rape after the whole town discovered the story." Mrs. Hawkins sued the Worker for $1,000,000. Last week she settled for $5,000. to be paid...
...with decorations, his hand in a stiff salute, Zhukov watched the young cadets of Russia's top military academies goose-step their way through Moscow's Red Square in unwavering, platoon-wide lines. The cadets wore smart new uniforms; steel-blue with sleeves laced with gold-braided laurel leaves; their officers wore striped yellow-and-white moiré belts from which hung short gilt swords...