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...scarcely worth the Duke's attention. Fortunately, his style shines through almost every bar of such half-roasted chestnuts as Never on Sunday and I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Oldtime Ellington Saxpots Jimmy Hamilton (tenor), Johnny Hodges (alto) and Harry Carney (baritone) add to the luster. Standouts are Russell Procope's low-register clarinet solo in More and Cootie Williams' soaring trumpet work on Fly Me to the Moon. And binding it all together is the deft piano scrimshaw of Ellington himself...
Tokyo's imaginative headline writers called it Okane no Saiten-the Festival of Money. Some Japanese authorities considered it more important than the Olympics in adding luster to Japan's image, and Prime Minister Ikeda came to speak to the opening session. When the International Monetary Fund met last week in Tokyo, the gathering in the elegant Hotel Okura was the greatest in the city's history, a financial Olympiad for 2,000 mental gymnasts from 102 nations...
...rise in consumer spending has also given new luster to grocery chains, department store groups and clothing producers. In addition, brokers now favor the rails, utilities and steels, whose production is expected to meet or exceed the 1955 record of 117 million tons. There is declining enthusiasm for the recently popular airlines, which are leveling out after a sharp climb, and the cement companies, which have suffered from trouble signs in the construction market...
HAMLET. Richard Burton is a virile, extraverted Hamlet with no hint of the melancholy self-questioning that stays his killing of the King. However, Burton's fresh phrasing of the play's famed familiar lines lends great luster to the evening...
...Americas before Columbus, gold was not so much precious as sacred. The Incas of Peru used it freely in wall coverings, in breastplates, in artificial flowers, in provision for tombs-never thinking of it as rare, always stressing the religious emotion they felt from gold's sunlike luster...