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...searchlight knifes the sky and startles the crowd. "Lenin came, or rather ran, into the waiting room. He wore a round cap, his face looked frozen, and there was a magnificent bouquet in his hands." Lenin toys with his flowers, stares at the ceiling, and gives a short pep talk, ending with "Long live the worldwide Socialist revolution...
With what is left, Ankles Aweigh cannot easily become the big popular Broadway musical it plainly hoped to be. In one thing it can take real pride: its luscious chorus line. It has also a sort of faded pep and dated breeziness, but these links with the past make it frightfully reminiscent yet not the least bit nostalgic...
...bill. The day he took over, Newhouse announced that Ray would stay on as publisher. He also said there would be no major staff changes and that the paper's present editors, executives and 1,200 employees will continue to run the daily. But Newhouse expects to pep up the stodgy Globe-Democrat. Although it has made a small profit year after year (estimated at $250,000 after taxes last year), it has been hamstrung by a tight budget...
...date the trial has been disappointing. Reporters tried to pep it up by calling Dr. Sam "the Romeo of the rubbing table," got their doctors mixed by describing his extramarital girl friend, Susan Hayes, as the "orthopedic wench." "For an osteopath," commented the New York Post on Dr. Sam's calm courtroom demeanor, "he hardly moved a muscle." Headlines promised BOMBSHELL DUE AT TRIAL TODAY and NEW SHEPPARD SEX ANGLE HINTED. But no bombs burst, no angles materialized...
What to Do. Almost every major denomination reported that it has set up a special department to pep up its rural ministry. Some have established bustling "group ministries" or "yoked field" plans in which three or four pastors move into an unchurched district. A Congregationalist delegate reported that in Broadus, Mont, the Rev. Harold Heckman, a former missionary in India, has built a central community church from which he and his wife serve six rural communities in an area the size of Connecticut. All six have consolidated their denominational congregations, and Mr. Heckman ministers to them all, using a Piper...