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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, by the time Joseph's balloon had cleared Knocke beach, the wind had freshened. The balloon was 1,000 feet up and heading north at 25 m.p.h. The men in the motorboat made one grab for Joseph's line as he whipped by overhead and missed...
Despite the enthusiasm of the Mexico City congress, Communism is actually on the decline in Latin America. It has been outlawed in nine countries, plagued by party splits in others. In several countries, e.g., Cuba, the party has deliberately cut its own membership rolls to be ready for underground activity...
Rather timidly, the Observer's Drama Critic Ivor Brown complained that the festival "is finding problems in its own success." There was, he thought, too much cultural plum pudding crammed into three weeks, leaving some customers with a stomachache.
A Touching Image. In some ways, Strauss the man mirrored the strengths and weaknesses of his music. Even to the late admiring critic, Lawrence Gilman, he was a composer who could "mold a beautiful or touching or heroic tonal image, and then distort it by scrawling a bad joke somewhere...
Head Up, Chin Up. Last week, when Shirley May finally took the plunge, she had missed the good weather. She also missed most of the newsmen. On their way over from England, they were far out in mid-Channel at take-off time aboard a picturesque but snail-slow two...