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...Hearstpaper affairs, except as a $1-a-year adviser (TIME, Nov. 5). The first sign of her advice: when her friend Sonja Henie opened her ice show on the West Coast, the San Francisco Examiner ran feature stories for four straight days, the Call-Bulletin headlined a rave review: SONJA'S ICE SHOW WINS HEART...
...Designer Roger Furse jokingly suggested that they do Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra as well. They smiled at the idea but were quickly haunted by it; and in due time the two Cleopatras became the sensation of the festival. Long before they opened in Manhattan last week, to rave reviews and a $900,000 advance, they had become a Broadway sensation as well...
Like most coaches, Ralph "Cooney" Weiland keeps a heavy damper on public displays of optimism. He's friendly, and definitely not prose to tear-shedding, but he doesn't generally "rave" about things, especially those things which concern his Crimson hockey team...
...short, this is a rave review about a riotous book written by a raving genius. It injects into the American scene the balance of satire it has sorely needed for a long time. It provides a workable philosophy, a readable poke at English, and a laughable look at ourselves...
Handsome young (30) Basso Rossi had appeared from nowhere, so far as most San Franciscans were concerned. But it was neither his U.S. debut nor his first U.S. critical rave. He was one of 25 unhappy European singers who were stranded in Chicago four seasons ago when their impresario went broke (TIME, Feb. 10, 1947). The Chicago Tribune's captious Claudia Cassidy got him to sing a few bars of Lamentation of a Siberian Prisoner to her over the telephone. She compared him to Chaliapin and Pinza...