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Central Park is used and enjoyed each year by some 30 million people-dowagers walking their dogs, prizefighters doing their morning road work, oldsters drowsing in the sun, people of all ages making love in the shade, kids playing cowboys and Indians, nursemaids plying the baby-carriage trade. It is a huge, beautiful-backyard for Manhattan's harried hive-dwellers...
Died. Egbert A. Van Alstyne, 73, old-time songwriter (In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Pretty Baby, Memories); of a heart attack; in Chicago. After several years as a honky-tonk piano player and song plugger, Van Alstyne, with Lyricist Harry Williams, won Tin Pan Alley fame in 1903 with Navaho, then went on to turn out more than 500 tunes until radio came along to rout the family piano. When sheet-music sales began to drop, Van Alstyne decided it was time to retire...
...role with vigorous charm, and takes full advantage of his cues for a few operatic bits (the best: Song of the Golden Calf, from Faust), and two old popular tunes (I'll See You in My Dreams, Everything I Have Is Yours). If his style is a shade heavy for deft comedy, it is certainly no heavier than the script...
Guns Next to Peashooters. In Abadan, meanwhile, the remaining 2,200 British executives and technicians stewed at 125° F. in the shade and waited hopelessly for the break they knew would not come. One moment the Iranians wanted them to stay and work for the new Iranian National Oil Co., the next buffeted them savagely; looters boldly snatched packing cases while the police did nothing; Anglo-Iranian helplessly reported that $28,000 worth of refinery machine parts were being stolen every week...
...friendly assembly of United Nations delegates met under the shade of apple trees in a Burlington, Vt. garden where Chief U.S. Delegate Warren R. Austin and his wife Mildred topped off the proceedings by cutting their golden wedding anniversary cake. Among the anniversary gifts: a gold thimble studded with diamonds for Mrs. Austin, a pair of gold picture frames from the White House...