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...tour as the villainous Captain Queeg with the road company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Actor Paul Douglas, currently pictured in magazine ads as a genial beer guzzler, hit the town of Greensboro, N.C. and made some ungenial, damyankee noises. Caught either off guard (according to a local reporter) or off record (according to Douglas), the actor waded Queegishly into a question about how he liked Dixie, snapped a curt "It stinks." After the aghast newsman commented that the reply would make interesting reading, Douglas plowed onward: "A land of sowbelly and segregation-it stinks." By the time...
...army announced that it would court-martial Major Kim, but General Taylor made a personal appeal to Rhee, urging clemency...
...said: "My God, the government radio has just broadcast a declaration of war, but we can't find out against whom." Several hours later, the embassy was able to learn the facts: Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's Cabinet had proclaimed a state of siege and war - that is, martial law - in three islands dominated by the secessionist rebels who have set up what they call the Republic of the South Moluccas. Other revolts are already in progress in parts of northern Sumatra, Celebes, southern Borneo, and western and central Java. Some government officials admit in private that even with...
...George Eskdale; Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Franz Litschauer; Vanguard, 1 LP). This is a must. The soloist is brilliant London Trumpeter Eskdale, who amazed and delighted collectors when he recorded excerpts of the concerto some 20 years ago. His style is effortless, his tone is clear and martial, recalling a soldier preening himself in his full-dress uniform...
...entitled to tear off an angry book. As the responsible commander on the spot, he and the late General Walter Short were singled out as scapegoats for those U.S. leaders who blundered in assuming the Hawaiian base safe from attack. Relieved from command, Kimmel was refused the court-martial that might have shown whether or not he deserved to bear all the blame alone. And when finally he got a hearing at a postwar congressional investigation, his countrymen were by then persuaded that the real blunderers at Pearl Harbor were the Japanese, and the old salt was swamped...