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After Hearst's a.m. New York Mirror sank without a burble, most of the columnists swam over to Hearst's p.m. Journal-American. But there was a bit of a problem for Society Snippet Suzy (Mrs. Aileen Mehle). The J-A already had Cholly Knickerbocker, and there are just so many tales one paper can tattle. Solution: Cholly walks the plank, Suzy gets full command of the society poop deck, and this week starts a combined column under the new nom de guerre of Suzy Knickerbocker...
...well-gnawed spare rib. and a blonde lock pinned on a brocade background along with a tattered French postcard (a small leaf has been taped in place for the sake of modesty), a reproduction of Ann Pollard, an anonymous American primitive painting of an old woman, and a snippet of Picasso's wall-eyed female Face. Of these oversized miniatures Boh rod says: "It just takes a small brush and a big mind...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Renata Tebaldi and Richard Tucker sing an excerpt from La Bohème, but only a snippet because Ed & Co. think good mu sic is scaring away audience...
...pieces, the dancing lesson called "Konservatoriet" and the pas de deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed in 1896 by Danish Hans Beck after the French ballet-master, Saint-Léon. If the Delibes music was as familiar as an old song, the peasanty dancing was like hearing it sung in another language, and audiences loved the piquant combination...
...setting up a Russian Council of I.P.R. (with Stalin's brother-in-law, A. S. Svanidze, as a member), had made seven trips to Russia between 1929 and 1945, served as president of Russian War Relief during World War II. From I.P.R.'s files came an additional snippet: in 1938, he recommended Communist Secretary Earl Browder to a Canadian club as a possible speaker -"really very well informed, and contrary to the public view, is 100% American." (The club declined...