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...pretty 28-year-old mother was a cho rus dancer who had been alcoholic for about ten years." The little boy passed most of his time with his mother "including the afternoons and evenings she spent in the back room of the neighborhood bar. He demanded a sip of beer from each glass. . . . He would go from customer to customer asking for sips and begging for nickels to play Margie in the jukebox (Margie was his mother's name)." His trouble, according to the doctor: an oedipus complex which caused him to imitate his mother. He forgot all about...
Born. To Cinemactress Rosalind Rus sell, 34, and Army Captain Fred Brisson, 30, peacetime actors' agent: their first child, a boy ; in Hollywood. Weight...
Each nation has plenty of bargaining power in the sovereignty it exercises over its own territory. Most of the great-circle routes from the U.S. to the world's biggest trade centers, for example, pass over Can ada. Many of them pass over China, Rus sia, India. And landing rights for all the world are needed in the smaller countries like Sweden, Belgium, Holland, British Malaya. Egypt - all the places in the world where there is trade, or where trade might...
...fantastic inflation until it is forced into becoming a passive ally, the United Nations will face terrific odds in defeating Japan. Neither a strategy based on island-to-island conquest in the South Pacific, nor one based on the remote hope of being able to mount an attack via Rus-sian Siberia, is sound. (If Russia declares war, says Dr. Hsu, Japan can easily cut the lifeline of the Trans-Siberian railway, and has consistently kept an approximate 25% preponderance of troops facing the Russians.) Therefore United Nations strategy will call for a huge armada of ships and millions...
...while it looked as if Conductor Koussevitzky had gained the prize. Without even waiting to see the score of the coveted Seventh Symphony, he rushed to the Am-Rus Music Corp., U.S. agent for Soviet music, nailed down the first concert-performance rights for the Western Hemisphere. Then with quiet triumph he announced that his student Berkshire Music Center Orchestra would play the Seventh Symphony on August 14. But the truth of the matter was that he had been nosed out by his 75-year-old rival, Arturo Toscanini, the old fire-&-ice Maestro himself. Toscanini would conduct the Seventh...