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...Communist scientists are dreadfully worried by the U.S. drain on the world's uranium supplies. Recently, the late Madame Marie Curie's son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Communist head of the French Government's atomic research program, uttered an atomic moan. The U.S., he said, has a monopoly of the world's "marketable" uranium...
Last week, ex-Usher Vic Damone was 19 years old and somebody for Sinatra to reckon with. He was "Da Moan," a suddenly well-known young singer who is being noised about as "Sinatra with quality." His first record (of I Have But One Heart and Ivy), released six weeks ago, had already sold 100,000 copies. Damone fan clubs were fizzing up like hot pop. And last week young Vic had binged into big-time radio as star of the coast-to-coast Saturday Night Serenade (10-10:30 p.m., CBS). "Geez," he said, "altogether I'm making...
...dazed by all this," says Da Moan, "but one thing I'm sure of. Some day, I'm going to have a great big mansion in Brooklyn...
Sometimes the fog sweeps in from Narsarssuak Fjord, drowning the Quonset huts of the U.S. airport under a grey sea. Sometimes winds from the towering snow-mantled peaks moan across the glacial delta on which the airstrip is built, setting G.I.nerves on edge. In the pale, brief sunlight and long gloom of Greenland's winter, it does not take much to give a G.I. "cabin fever"- a disease which becomes acute when the mail is late...
Metronome's prize girl singer of the year is June Christy, 21, a onetime amateur-night winner from Decatur, Ill. She got more votes than Dinah Shore or Jo Stafford. June sings with Stan Kenton's band in the same husky moan as her Kenton predecessor, Anita O'Day. Says she: "I've been hoarse ever since I can remember and Anita has too. Anita has bad breath control and so do I. It makes both of us sing a little flat...