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...Siren Talk. When Khrushchev reopened the Berlin issue five weeks ago, at Vienna, some observers cried "old stuff." But there was one big difference: a truculent tone that said: "This time something's got to be done." So far, John Kennedy has been as firm as Ike in turning thumbs down on the Soviet demands. But a few less-thoughtful U.S. spokesmen have seemed receptive to the siren talk of "negotiation...
What distinguishes bluegrass is 1) the fact that all instruments are unamplified (folk fanciers have long deplored the siren-wailing electric guitars of less authentic country singers), and 2) the employment of a five-string banjo technique known affectionately as "pickin' scruggs." This technique, which moved one astigmatic observer to compare Scruggs's achievement on the banjo to Paganini's on the violin, involves a clawlike motion with thumb and two fingers that serves to transform the banjo player from a plunk-plunking accompanist into a virtuoso soloist. Nobody has heard anything to equal it, says...
...night was tense around the University, though, as students, cruising police cars, and over 20 photographers and reporters kept an alert eye for possible trouble. Every wail from a police siren brought reporters running, but nothing particularly out of the ordinary occurred. Firecrackers exploded sporadically and pointlessly...
After serving twelve years in prison for treason, Maine-born Spinster Mildred Gillars, 60, siren-singing "Axis Sally" of World War II, will be paroled in July, plans to work in a nunnery, possibly teaching music...
...cover the school integration story for three days), New Orleans' handsome Mayor de Lesseps ("Chep") Morrison made news himself in Manhat tan. In town to attend a conference of U.S. mayors, in a trice he found himself in the Stork Club and the clinging arms of Perennial Siren Zsa Zsa Gabor. Later, asked what they had talked about, Zsa Zsa seemed surprised at the question. "Of course," she said, "we talked about the problems of the South...