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...been given every advantage that money can buy. For nursemaid, Joe Taylor has a full-sized Greek chorus singing Richard Rodgers' pleasant tunes; for playing after school, a full-scale Agnes de Mille ballet; for wedding music, a virtual cantata. His most uninspired thoughts reverberate through loudspeakers; his quietest desires are wired for sound. As a result, Allegro gets too big for its roots and too elaborate to have an honest Our Town warmth. Snapshots in family albums lose some of their character and charm when blown up for public display. That way they show their defects more plainly...
Everybody was swapping congratulations. Somebody dropped a dead mouse down somebody's back. Said solemn Joe DiMaggio, veteran of seven World Series: "These celebrations are all alike-but I can stand them." Outside of Joe DiMaggio, the quietest fellow in all the champagne-splashing was the man who did most to win the pennant-Manager Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris...
...Havana, Cuba, the authorities expected a big day. Soldiers lay on the flat roofs along the parade's route, while first-aid stations and Red Cross blood banks stood by. It was the quietest May Day on record...
Three roving Americans roamed Europe on self-appointed rounds last week. The quietest was William Z. Foster, national chairman of the U.S. Communist Party, who padded noiselessly from capital to capital while he conferred with top comrades...
...Boston reacted with cod-like calm when the Duotone Sound Laboratories decided it was the quietest city in the U.S. But citizens of Los Angeles, which was second, and New York, which was third, could hardly believe their ears...