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Andy Schoeppel got a chance to answer such questions-or to enjoy his press clippings-he got a rude comeuppance...
...Here to There Without Fireworks. Some bridges mix both scene and mood: Menacing Humor to Racetrack Background; Light Confusion -and Then Down the Stairs in a Hurry. If a radio dramatist likes music behind his words, Crosby found, one piece he can get is Background-Nostalgic-Tender into ye Rude Awakening. "Ye Rude Awakening, in this case, is simply a sad chord of a sort known in the trade as a stab . . . Not all stabs are bad news, though. WOR can also provide you with a hopeful stab called Things Are Looking...
...seem symbolic. At U.S. parties, Malik used to be a smooth, sociable guest or host, not averse to a cocktail or Bourbon & water. Recently, in the Security Council delegates' lounge, he has stuck to fruit juice or soda water.) Says Norway's Arne Sunde: "Malik is very rude. And he looks as if he believed in his rudeness...
...Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting exhausted on a cloud, Leda tête-à-tête with a Donald-Duckish swan, Brer Rabbit battling the rude Tar Baby, Androcles nursing a huge, unhappy lion, and the elastic-nebbed elephant and tenacious crocodile of Kipling's Just So Stories. What the sculptures lacked in naturalism they more than made up for in naturalness...
...Australian Davis Cup team got a rude shock when Sweden's big, blond Lennart Bergelin beat Frank Sedgman and veteran Jack Bromwich in two of the four singles matches. After his second victory, proud Swedes piled out of the stands to treat Bergelin to an old Swedish hissa (a toss in the air). Then the Aussies settled down and won the deciding match. Their next opponent...