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Lanza Sings Christmas Carols (RCA Victor Stereo). Tenor Lanza, who recorded this album in Italy not long before his death this fall, sings his carols straight, and they have rarely sounded better: Away in a Manger, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Silent Night...
...present instance, while Khrushchev has been trumpeting that "Russia is the greatest power," secure in his disarmament declaration, China has been playing dog in the manger, having treated Khrushchev's visit as unimportant and having refused to issue a joint communique on the occasion. The trouble in India has been explained, so far, as a cover for Tibet atrocities or as an outlet for Chinese territorial expansion needs (Nehru's view...
...Christ child doll-an unbreakable, washable, 9-in. model of the Christ child, packaged in a straw and satin crib with a picture of the Bethlehem manger and appropriate Biblical texts in either King James or Douay versions. Price: $8.00. A "de luxe model with beautiful cathedral background" costs $12.00. The Christ child doll has not been a conspicuous success, despite approval by both Protestant and Catholic authorities. A comparison shopper for Macy's in Kansas City reported excitedly that "the Jones Store has marked Jesus Christ down 50%!" Explained Macy's K.C. manager ruefully: "I guess mothers...
...asked for 40,000 scholarships, Alabama's Representative Carl Elliott 23,000 and President Eisenhower 10,000. But its passage was a clear victory for Sponsors Hill and Elliott and a sore defeat for hard-rock states-righters, especially Senator William E. Jenner, who doggedly defended the manger with a motion excluding Indiana from all benefits. In four days of hard haggling, Senate-House conferees laughed off Jenner's antics, slowly worked out a bill that gave the Senate, which had little to trade with, a few minor concessions for its reluctantly abandoned scholarship provision. The U.S. needs...
...Greek philosophers. On one shell beneath the central dome the Angel of the Annunciation with classic countenance floats against a sky of gold. On the adjacent shell a note of nature observed, and of warmth and intimacy, warms the usually remote hieratic figures of the Nativity, and the manger animals, reduced to the size of toys, are almost playful...