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...medical students and give it proper burial. Soon after that there comes the glorious love duet, "Bess, You Is My Woman Now." This idyllic scene between Porgy and Bess contrasts sharply with the brutal savage love scene as Crown, in hiding in the swamps, finds Bess separated from a picnic party and forces her to stay with him for the night. Further tragedy comes as a hurricane strikes suddenly and the women gather to wail and pray for their...
...TIME regrets having associated the Maytags (washing machines) with isolationists by implication. TIME drew a wrong inference from the fact that Isolationists Eggleston, Feagin and Stewart (of Scribner's Commentator and The Herald] were entertained at a, big picnic on the Maytag estate. But no Maytag was present, the Maytag house was closed, and no Maytag was aware of the political views of the guests. Hostess was a Mrs. Vickers, widow of a Lake Geneva dentist...
...pessimist is Bishop Rowe. "Why it's a picnic, that's what it is, a picnic, compared to the way I used to cover Alaska," said he cheerily last week. Nor is he a backward looker. "The church is more alive and alert today," he observes. "There is an enthusiasm today that did not exist before. . . . The church has a larger world vision...
...Andrews looks the general. He golfs. He still likes to fly, does it well. He gambles (for enough to make it profitable fun). He is a discriminating Martini sipper (who says that he has yet to find a properly mixed Martini). He likes to take his friends on cocktail-picnic parties. In short, he has unusual social adaptability joined to his forthright military drive. With modesty and patience, he has survived a difficult, frustrated tour as commander of the Caribbean Air Forces under his predecessor in the top command, Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis. Last week General Van Voorhis...
Result: ten college girls and eight boys last week were hacking their way, with axes, brush hooks and mattocks, up a wooded mountainside, building a truck trail for fire fighting, clearing the way to a new mountain park where Wyoming Valley coal miners might go to picnic and play. The Valley was thoroughly mystified. So were some 40 other U.S. communities where 800 high-school and college students set up similar work camps this summer and paid $50 to $100 each for a chance to do constructive work...