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...dark side into deepest doom. But Alsop's dramatic flair as a reporter in foreign lands seizes surely on color, incident, history and personality to bring a situation crackling to life. In this journalistic field he has had few peers since the days of Vincent (Personal History) Sheean...
...overseas blind, Helen Keller, an indomitable 74, arrived in Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said. It was at a meeting with G. B. Shaw when...
Biographies in Sound (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). 'Bernard Shaw," with Lady Astor, Vincent Sheean, Norman Thomas, Leonard Lyons...
...Rangaswami joined the New Delhi bureau seven years ago as a stenographer and interpreter, gradually became indispensable and was raised to full-correspondent status two years ago. Much in demand as guide and interpreter for traveling U.S. correspondents and authors, he has shepherded such visitors as John Gunther, Vincent Sheean. Margaret Bourke-White and David Douglas Duncan, who knew him by reputation and looked him up on their brief passages through India. These diverse and highly individualistic types have failed to give him a clear idea of the "typical American." In fact, says Rangaswami, those mysterious Westerners still leave...
...vintage 1939 recording by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia); Respighi's Pines and Fountains of Rome, played by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony and wrapped in one of the fanciest album packages to date (13 pages of photographs of Rome, with text by Vincent Sheean) at no extra cost (Victor...