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MUCH has been written-and much more said-about how the recession compares with the other two postwar business declines. Last week, studying a series of remarkable charts, economists and businessmen could prove what they had suspected: this recession is the shortest of all, and the one that sends into retreat some of Lord Keynes's cherished theories. See BUSINESS, Three Recessions...
Called Omaha! ("shortest musical comedy and longest radio commercial ever produced"), it liltingly celebrates the joys of Omaha and only incidentally those of Butter-nut Coffee, which is packed there. After the orchestra swung through Freberg's lighthearted, tuneful spoof of Oklahoma!-type musicals, even skeptics who had come to hoot remained to hum. The mayor is recommending the adoption of the rollicking Whatta They Got in Omaha? as the civic anthem, Capitol Records has put out a recording with I Look in Your Face and I See Omaha on the flip side. More important, from Freberg...
Pacifism is intransigent, holding peace as the highest objective. If it were, then it might be argued that universal Communism, dictated by Moscow, is the shortest road to peace. Disarmament, however, cannot assume the place of national security in American diplomatic strategy...
...master of ceremonies. In their boss's honor, Times drama staffers replated the Sunday theater section for a limited edition with every story on the page about Atkinson and carrying his name in the headline. Shy Critic Atkinson was even moved to make the evening's shortest (two minutes) and only unrehearsed speech. Said he: "I have tried to be on the level...
Once out of the gate, Willie drives into his familiar dash for position and then takes the shortest road home. Says Jimmy Kilroe with professional admiration: "You almost never find Willie in what they call 'the married man's position,' that is, playing it safe on the outside of the pack so he can get home healthy for dinner. As a matter of fact, I think that not enough has been made of the frame of mind of the bachelor athlete. The bachelor is without the normal, settling tendencies. The other boys, the married ones, the homebodies, so to speak...