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Cats in Asia When he blew into Burma and gave out with some hot licks at the University of Rangoon, Jazzman Benny Goodman was greeted after the performance by ex-Prime Minister U Nu, who cried ecstatically : "Your music makes my toes tickle!" It was like that all along Goodman's route through Asia. Benny and his band were scoring the same kind of rocking success in their Far East tour that Dizzy Gillespie had in the Middle East last year and Louis Armstrong had in Africa...
...Burma that Benny really wowed them. In Rangoon, Benny led his band dressed in pink gaungbawng headgear, black alpaca jacket and checked sarong. The crowd (including Soviet Ambassador Alexey D. Shiborin) went wild. "Thank the Lord I've lived to hear this!" cried a frenzied spectator. Before he left, Benny made a recording of the Burmese national anthem that may be made the official version by the Burmese government. Then Benny and band took off for six solidly booked concerts in Tokyo, where he was introduced as "the great Benjamin Goodman" and showered with flowers. Said one sideman nostalgically...
...democracy's most eloquent enemies. The portrait was remarkable for the way Chou failed in appearance and performance to live up to his reputation. Chou agreed to make the show for Commentator Edward R. Murrow only if questions were submitted in advance, then arrived at his Rangoon rendezvous with Murrow and camera crew willing to answer only ten of them. (Among the many subjects he declined to discuss: U.S. prisoners in China, Titoism, Peking's offer of a governmental post to Chiang Kai-shek.) Murrow & Co., and viewers as well, were fortunate that Chou did not answer more...
...suggestion of worry showed in Chou's handsome, beard-tinged features as he plodded stolidly along the party line. Home from Rangoon, Murrow followed the filmed interview with a live discussion in which Nationalist China's U.N. Ambassador T. F. Tsiang and others meticulously picked apart Chou's words. Rebuttal was unnecessary...
...week's end the hottest rumor in Rangoon held that Chou was so anxious to make friends that he would even give up his claim to the villages. But the rumor was promptly scotched by at least one knowing agriculturist. "Red China will never give up a claim to that area," he prophesied. "It produces the best coffin wood in the world...