Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Loesser, 48, music man who wrote the book, music and lyrics for Broadway's The Most Happy Fella, the music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls, and scores of popular songs, including Baby It's Cold Outside, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, On a Slow Boat to China; and Actress-Singer Jo Sullivan (real name: Elizabeth Josephine Jacobs), 31, who played Rosabella, the mail-order bride, in The Most Happy Fella; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Slow Start. At the moment, such a Bundeswehr is still a long way off. The twelve divisions exist largely on paper. Even the seven "combat ready'' divisions transferred to NATO during the past two years are training groups through which thousands of raw recruits pass annually, later to be peeled off as cadres for other divisions. Of the total planned strength of 200,000 men, the army today has only 123,000. Of the 2,500 pilots the new Luftwaffe will need, only 650 are trained, and new pilots are qualifying at the rate of only...
...Montreal, the stubby Canadian icebreaker d'Iberville swung into the steel grey current of the St. Lawrence one morning last week to lead a column of ships in a slow parade upstream. D'Iberville's decks swarmed with visitors; her rigging danced with bunting; and ships still at their moorings bellowed hoarse salutes. Otherwise, no one bothered with ceremony; Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower will meet in Montreal June 26 for the formal dedication...
...conductor gets some bandshell marshmallows-Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Fantasia on "Greensleeves"-preconducted for him by Arthur Fiedler, Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett. (Any armchair connoisseur of the Viennese repertory will find Conductor Fiedler's tempi in the Fledermaus waltzes aggravatingly slow, but Gould's version of Mexican Hat Dance is so inspiring that it may result in dislocated shoulders...
...heroine (Bardot), according to the synopsis, is "a semiprofessional prostitute"; half the time she makes love for money, half the time for fun. One day when business is slow, she and another streetwalker hold up a jewelry store. Her accomplice is caught. Bardot runs off to see a famous lawyer (Gabin). How will she pay his fee? Calmly she raises her skirts above her hips, suggests that he attach her source of income...