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...season's final concert of Washington's National Gallery Orchestra last week was no place for cold-blooded Yankees. The west court of the gallery rang with the words and music of such songs as The Bonnie Blue Flag, The Conquered Banner, the sentimental love song Lorena, and for a finale, Dixie, with a 40-voice chorus giving the rebel yell...
...telephone: "It's the most fabulous thing we've ever seen! They're standing four abreast all the way down to the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood and all the way around the block downtown!" In its first week Bwana smashed house records at the box office, rang up $95,000 at the two theaters. Rushed into a Chicago theater, it broke some more records...
Sound & Fury. In Hughesville, Pa., the citizens voted to legalize local drinking after a hard-fought campaign during which the drys rang the town's church bells every hour and Anti-Prohibitionist Richard Schaeffer tooted his sawmill whistle every half hour...
...James V. Forrestal. Behind his special, direct-line White House telephone, the man from Detroit propped a framed motto which read, "Nulle Bastardo Carborundum"-assembly-line Latin for "Don't let the bastards wear you down." Then, draping a cigarette out of the corner of his mouth, he rang a buzzer twice and an aide, Marine Colonel Carey Randall, appeared in the office doorway. Said Charlie Wilson, looking up over the plastic rims of his glasses: "Let's get to work...
Hill (pop. 9,177), Wilson (23,010), Gastonia (23,069) and Durham (71,311), Negroes were elected to local public office for the first time since Reconstruction days. In Greensboro (pop. 74,389), Councilman William Hampton, who rang up a first when elected in 1951, was re-elected to a second term...