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...Russ Auditorium, big, dead-serious Bill Knowland seemed incongruous against the stock California political backdrop-a marimba band, Japanese girls, a flame swallower in vaquero costume. Knowland moved carefully among some 300 people, here pausing for a solemn word, there posing with a tight grin for a photograph, all the while working toward the speaker's platform. Once he got there, Knowland wasted little time on howdy-dos, plowed straight away into his speech. "I know of no campaign," rumbled Oakland Tribune Assistant Publisher Knowland, "that may determine the fate of California and the U.S. as much as this...
...suggesting to the other Mideast states that they join in one big family dominated, naturally, by Nasser and Egypt. If Iraqis in the new Cabinet longed to keep oil royalties inside their own borders, they had to be mindful of the Baghdad street mobs that cheer Nasser's photograph, and absorb the lies and fury of Radio Cairo...
Curtain Up. Day before the Brussels opening, Music Director Samuel Krachmalnick set about rehearsing a pickup orchestra of phlegmatic Flemings. A Brussels milliner, working from a photograph, in six hours ran up helmets for The Combat. At the scheduled time, in the U.S. Pavilion theater, the curtain rose on the Ballet Theatre. The first work on the bill was Theme and Variations, but variations predominated: girls in Sylphides tutus and men in tights, which had just arrived from New York, leaped and twirled against a backdrop from Gala Performance...
After excelling in Plain and Fancy, Candide and now the Meredith Willson hit, don't you think that wonderful Barbara Cook deserves at least one photograph...
...singing forest"-so called because of the screams of the victims who were hung by their wrists to trees. Shown a photograph of prisoners hanging in this fashion, Sommer was asked, "Is that you standing beside the men?" Replied Sommer matter-of-factly: "No, we did not hang our prisoners so high...