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...next four years the cold war would be Harry Truman's war. In all likelihood, Old Soldier George Marshall would not stay on to help him fight it. In his inherited term, Harry Truman, by painful experience, groping and pluck, had evolved a policy of containment and counterattack. In his new term, the man of 1948 would carry the full weight of driving that policy to a decision...
...should appear on the stage but tall, bouncy Gypsy Rose Lee. She had given up stripteasing for authorship-but you could never be sure, with Gypsy. The camera gave her a nervous glance. Sure enough, as she got well into her song, Psychology of a Stripteaser, she began to pluck at her shoulder. That was enough: the picture wavered and vanished in a hysterical band of jiggling lines. Startled televiewers found themselves staring at nothing but the initials CBS, while in the background, Gypsy's voice trilled on, and enthusiastic Air Force veterans shouted the traditional "Take...
This week, Manhattan concertgoers heard his latest oddity-a piece called Shatokh. Against a low rich moan of the violin, the piano sounded like one of the ancient Armenian zither-and lute-like instruments (kanoon, saz) that Hovhaness likes to imitate: there was little else but pluck-like repeated notes, connected occasionally by eddying swirls of sound. Suddenly, when it was about to verge on monotony, Shatakh just ended...
...older female. Rapidly he became the zoo's star attraction and the pride of his keeper, Hans Rietmann. When Mandjullah took the kids for a ride on her back, Chang trundled awkwardly behind, amiably accepting peanuts. Sometimes he would even snuggle his trunk into a pocket to pluck out a piece of candy...
When Eddy was seven, his kinfolk left him an old Sears, Roebuck guitar and he learned to pluck a few chords and sing a few songs. When he got bigger, he started playing Saturday-night dances for 75? in Henderson, Tenn. Eddy could then afford to spark the girls to the extent of 50?. "And man, you spend that much on a girl where I come from, and she wants you to come back...