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...pull his troops off Quemoy and Matsu, and say: "This could lead to the reconsideration at an appropriate moment both of Chinese representation in the United Nations and the future of Formosa." That is a plain promise that if the Tories win this election they will press for a sellout of Chiang and Formosa...
With his orchestra well in hand, Katims schedules everything from Brahms to Morton Gould, interests all sorts of listeners. This season, for the first time, the orchestra's eight-concert subscription series was a complete sellout (2,600 subscribers), Katims also expanded a series of $1-admission concerts in the suburbs (where he sometimes gets a local businessman to take the baton for the concluding number), and so excited one old music lover that she offered a $150,000 apartment building toward a new hall. Next year's budget will be jumped from...
With the French press, radio and cinema tumbling over themselves to lionize Thierry, his show has become a sellout. All 52 paintings up for sale went for prices ranging from $100 to $150. In hailing his success, the weekly Arts topped the critical raves with a bit of sound advice: "Most of the canvases are beautiful. But why not leave the boy alone and let him develop his gifts instead of inflicting on him the ordeal of an exhibition...
...Socialists, the National Assembly took up the cry that the government plans to abandon what remains of French interests in Indo-China. Frenchmen, though they had almost unanimously supported him when he made the deal at Geneva, now show signs of reviling Mendès for his Indo-China "sellout," and for the fact that 21,000 French war prisoners are still in Communist hands...
After his ordination in 1944, his superiors allowed Father MacEwan to continue his musical career part-time. He traveled as far as New Zealand and Australia, singing to sellout houses. But before starting his first U.S. tour last month, he lost 18 lbs. just worrying about the hard-boiled audiences he expected to meet. During his 28-day tour, he sang twelve recitals and made four TV appearances. From Shreveport, La. to Fall River, Mass., with stops in Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh, Father MacEwan found only enthusiastic audiences. Wrote Chicago Critic Claudia Cassidy: "You would have gone quite a distance...