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...Freeman used to render his soles in the "hesitation" style, i.e., he would pause every three or four bars to think up a new idea, and this procedure made his work come out like a patchwork quilt. The new post-war model is smoother and more continuous. When not given to abandoned flights of the imagination and on tunes which are not so fast and gusty that they shake the instrumentalists out of all their ideas before the record is half through, Freeman's acrid, trembling tone and curious phrasing can, as in this case, produce tasteful and distinctive music...
...inch quilt of top snow which covered the sitzmark-dotted schuss fields around Cambridge Monday, moved north last night to the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire and should provide optimum conditions for any college enthusiasts intending to spend the weekend on skis...
...President it was still short many a provision advocated by outsiders, e.g., curbs on the Senate's unlimited debate and on the strangling seniority system, and a hobble on the House Rules Committee. But it was a long step forward. Its key provisions: ¶ Reduce the crazy-quilt of standing committees from 48 to 19 in the House, from 33 to 15 in the Senate. ¶ Limit most Senators to service on two committees, most Representatives to one. ¶Registration of lobbyists, requiring them to file detailed accounts...
Under strong lobby pressure to end all price controls, the House of Representatives has pasted together another patchwork quilt of economic irrationalities and short-sighted solutions. Business and farm groups envision a speculator's paradise in which they will make a quick, sure killing; the amended Price Control Act is the result of their wondrous wishful thinking. The inflation that may soon follow would be tragic for most Americans, the large majority of whom favor blanket renewal of the OPA for another year. With elections approaching, Congress is gambling-but national inflation is hardly worth the risk...
Russian policy looked like a crazy quilt of contradiction; but it was not. Danes rejoiced as the Red Army began to leave Bornholm Island last week. (Some of the Russian soldiers carried grandfather clocks on their backs.) Russia was suspected of stirring up another hornets' nest for Iran by inciting the Kurds to revolt, but promised to leave Iran within six weeks "if nothing unforeseen happens." The Supreme Soviet ordered six more classes of the Red Army to be demobilized by September...