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...Communist Party headquarters and newspapers around the world were left without intelligible words to explain the sudden abandonment of a line and a "monolithic unity" they had devoted two years to peddling. Socialists in Britain and West Germany were hard put to justify their thesis that Russia's mellow new leadership was ready to become friendly if only those rigid Americans would cease their demands for German rearmament...
...also the name announced by Roosevelt as the place of origin of General Jimmy Doolittle's 1942 Tokyo raid.) Both Lost Horizon and Chips sold more than 3,000,000 copies, became movie classics. In the more than 20 novels that followed, Millionaire Novelist Hilton served up a mellow blend of worldly wisdom and well-bred British morality that delighted the book clubs, Hollywood producers and the general public, but alienated first-line critics. "The novelist who sells the reader a good time," Hilton once said, "tends to do so furtively, hoping that certain critics will not notice...
Just in case that meanness ever begins to mellow, pro players have coaches such as the Chicago Cardinals' "Jumbo" Joe Stydahar. A mild-mannered, nervous wreck in his spare time, Joe used to be one of the nastiest customers ever to play professional ball. Once, playing tackle for the Chicago Bears, Stydahar walloped an opponent so hard that the man's arm was ripped open. Astonished officials insisted Joe must have bitten his man; they even examined his mouth. It was a waste of time. Joe couldn't have bitten if he wanted to. He had lost...
...weekday night Princeton is quiet except for an occasional shout through the campus ant the mellow mean of the college jazz band. Most undergraduates spend the evening among the open stacks of Friesians library, which stays open until midnight...
Toshiko (Norgran LP). A Japanese girl pianist called Toshiko plays jazz in the style of Bud Powell, crisper than Marion McPartland, less mellow than Oscar Peterson (who discovered her in a Tokyo nightclub), but able and inventive...