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...Bach!" he exclaimed to a reporter for Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. "Listen to this." And the room, wrote the reporter, "was filled with liquid sound, mellow, golden," as Kapell turned to his keyboard. But Kapell had his fill of Sydney critics; it was goodbye forever. "I shall never return," he said...
...week's end Godfrey was in a more mellow mood. He said he had intended to say a lot of nice things about Julius ("a charming rascal") on the swan-song show, but had only about eleven seconds to do it. But, said Godfrey firmly, he was "more proud of this boy" than of any of the youngsters he had made into stars. On that sweet note, the storm blew over, leaving La Rosa to cash in on a million dollars' worth of publicity and kind Father Godfrey to mull an ancient maxim: a doting parent generally deserves...
...Scoutmaster (20th Century-Fox) enacts one more battle in Clifton Webb's long movie war with children. Perhaps because he is opposed this time by as potent an organization as the Boy Scouts, Webb is considerably more mellow than in his Mr. Belvedere days: he strikes only one urchin (and then with only a blob of ice cream), and soon loses his heart to a frog-voiced eight-year-old (George Winslow). Webb takes over an unruly troop of Scouts because, as a writer of TV children's shows, he thinks he should know more about the spaceship...
...with blue and green grapes that sent the price of wine toppling. In Germany, cattle and hogs were plump and plentiful; in Scandinavia, furrows bulged with a splendid crop of potatoes. Everywhere, except in Switzerland, where the spring frosts were harsh, Western Europe's harvest waxed fat and mellow, promising its people that next winter none need starve...
...lemon ice, roast beef, ham, candied sweet potatoes, potato salad, peas, asparagus, mushrooms, lettuce, onions, whole-wheat rolls, fresh strawberry pie), the President protested, "Oh, my belt line!" He had just gone on a diet, he said, but at 182 lbs. he is still 6 lbs. overweight. In a mellow, after-meal mood, the guest of honor told Beltsville's hands that he stood firmly behind the kind of research they were doing. Someone mentioned the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who had once been Agriculture Department information director (1928-40). Chuckling, Ike said: "I must tell...