Word: snaring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snare-drum player should really play his little solo like Fred Astaire dances!" ("Oh!" wailed a drummer...
...jabs sparingly, but mostly in the right places. Glenn Ford, as the honest and sometimes bewildered lawyer, and Arthur Kennedy, as the smooth Communist manipulator, are both topnotch. Dorothy McGuire is just right as the reformed fellow-traveling secretary who regretfully looks on as Ford gets caught in the snare; Rafael Campos (The Blackboard Jungle) is a good Angel. And the picture has another attraction: filmed in black and white for a screen of much less than the common contemporary width, it can be comfortably watched by people who do not have wall eyes...
Indian Giver. Crumped the San Francisco Chronicle: "As matters stand, the poor fellow who answers the $64,000 question will be able to bank but a small hat ful . . ." The Roanoke (Va.) World-News charged the show was "an illusion-a tax snare" and argued that "Uncle Sam's role in these TV giveaways is that of an Indian giver." Even the left-wing New Republic seemed shocked by the enormity of it all, since a successful contestant ". . . would have seen the income tax people (who don't know a thing about the Bible or Shakespeare) grab...
...Yellow Rose of Texas (Mitch Miller orchestra and chorus; Columbia). With a rat-a-tat-tat of snare drums and a fifelike tweedle, the Texan (presumably) chorus chants about the girl back home. The tune, which comes from the Civil War, is so appealing that it has risen to No. 3 bestseller in a few weeks. Perhaps march tempos will replace the rock-'n-roll fashion...
...Buffalo a band of hoodlums broke into School 69 last week, emptied fire extinguishers over the auditorium's seats, smashed a snare drum through a bass drum, broke two large ceramic vases, slashed a movie screen to ribbons, desecrated a new American flag, broke both skylights in the gym, and in general indulged in a wholesale orgy of ink splashing, paint splattering, light-bulb smashing. Estimated damage: $1,000. What worried Buffalo authorities most: P.S. 69 is the twelfth school to be attacked since last February...