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...Manhattan's Chinatown, the bands blared When the Saints Go Marchin' In. On Capitol Hill, the Congressmen gave her a luncheon, and an admiring State Department man quipped, "She knows the United States so well I wouldn't be surprised if she produced a hot dog from the sleeve of her dress." A lot of people persisted in saying that Madame Chiang Kaishek, 67, had something up her sleeve as she sampled U.S. cooking and opinion for the first time in seven years. But Nationalist China's graceful First Lady, moving into the presidential suite...
...cold on the subject of jazz-but never cool. Insisting that jazz came up the river from Odessa long before it made its Mississippi passage, Soviet authorities three years ago began relaxing the ban against Dixieland and swing. As a result, such dated numbers as When the Saints Go Marchin In and Sixteen Tons are now popular in Russia. Yet the Soviet music masters could not bring themselves to permit Russian musicians to play kholodny or cool dzhaz-the progressive sound of Thelonious Monk and Stan Getz, much admired by many Russians who hear it on the Voice of America...
...demonstrations occurred in June. They were the last of any size that Albany has seen. There is a sense of failure in the city. ("Trouble with the Movement, we marched and we marched and we went to jail, we marched and we went to jail.--Now we done stopped marchin' an' all that's happened, we ain't goin' to jail for marchin' no more.") The number of committed Movement people is declining. The faith in the power of right that was intense enough to touch even guys like Knight has been shaken, and with it--though temporarily--faith...
With six months still to go before the next changeover in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon brass choir last week was tootling up introductory choruses of When the Chiefs Come Marchin' In. Top names in the game of musical chairs to be played next August...