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...There are the same echoes of a distorted reality that characterize Kafka -the sound of church bells (or is it thunder?), snatches of bugles and drums (but what living army ever marched to such a beat?), or a sudden hop and skip, as of a fragmented polka (but no belle ever danced to such measures...
...Liberal Reuther determined to take the play away from Lyndon. He announced his own strong support for Stevenson, then persuaded Michigan's governor and favorite son, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, to go to work. Striding from hotel room to hotel room, his lanky form trademarked by his green polka-dot bow tie, Williams checked with leaders from Ohio, Minnesota, Kansas and New Jersey. "I checked the figures myself," said Soapy. "I couldn't see how Harriman could win." Late Tuesday night, Williams called his 44-vote delegation into a chokingly smoke-filled caucus room. The delegation...
...Polka Time (Fri. 10 p.m., ABC). New dance show...
Australia's lottery-barrel polka began 75 years ago when Tattersall's Racing Club began holding sweepstakes on horse races (the Irish Sweepstakes, say Australians, are a pale copy of "Tatts"), became a national pastime between World Wars, when state governments set up lotteries as a means of raising additional revenue (approximately 40% of the take). This year, riding out a prosperity boom, Australians are expected to buy close to a hundred million lottery tickets (variously priced from 30? to $225 each) for an expenditure equal to about $10 for each man, woman and child in the country...
...kept a wary eye roving over the orchestra. With the same vigor he had shown in the pit of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10), he put a spin on every phrase. The music chuckled, twittered and bounced from one carefree music-hall polka into another...