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...title, it has often been taken as the epitome of the "kind of sandwich" once described by James Thurber: "Between thick slices of advertising, spread twelve minutes of dialogue, add predicament, villainy and female suffering in equal measure, throw in a dash of nobility, sprinkle with tears, season with organ music, cover with a rich announcer sauce, and serve five times a week." Actually, Elsie Beebe ranges less frequently over the tearstained world of suffering women than many of its kind, prides itself on its philosophic asides...
Dream Time (Martha Lou Harp; Columbia LP). An intriguing vocal that has a hint of Johnnie Ray's edginess and intensity. But the voice is sometimes so concealed in foggy echoes that it might be Garbo singing. With a wispy accompaniment of harp and organ. Songstress Harp runs the gamut from artfully seductive (in Paradise) to reflectively sensuous (in By the Bend of the River...
From his modern hillside house outside Zurich, Switzerland, German-born Author Thomas (The Magic Mountain) Mann talked about writing. "The German language is an organ," he said, "but if I could be born again I would choose English. It opens much greater possibilities. Apart from Goethe and the other classics, the German language is not popular. It is not indecent to be unpopular, but this is the fact." How did he rate authors like Faulkner and Hemingway with the big names of earlier generations? "There is a colossal difference in size. Think of the forest of great authors...
...York Hospital, Surgeon Frank Glenn opened the Senator's abdomen in the hope of finding that the malignancy had originated in a specific organ; then the primary site could be removed, or treated with radiation. But no such site could be found. A growth was found in one kidney, but it was not the primary site. The abnormal cells were all over, and new experimental chemicals proved useless against them. The doctors (no less than 46 were brought in) sadly concluded that they could do nothing more for Taft than make his last days comfortable...
Crying in the Chapel (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). To a tune that appropriately starts like Someone to Watch Over Me, and with a trombone wailing discreetly among the organ tones. Ella explains how she has found peace of mind...