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...cross between cackle and a whistle, and performers on the vocal high wire and trapeze are utterly devoid of musical interest to me." O'Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
Carey was not intimidated; he fought on, trying to soften some of the union's pronouncements on U.S. policies. In the middle of one skirmish, up jumped a Careyman who said he was an ex-Communist. He shouted that the union "is controlled lock, stock and barrel by the Communist Party. . . . The only decisions which will come out of this convention are those having the stamp of approval of the Party." Retorted "Fitzy" Fitzgerald: "Trash...
...Montreal had been won over, but that cut no ice in Flatbush. Branch Rickey, who knows his fellow citizens, set out to soften them up. He organized a group of Brooklyn's leading Negro citizens, including one judge, into a formal "how-to-handle-Robinson committee." In every other city in the National League, Rickey set up similar committees. The Brooklyn committee drew up a list of do's and don'ts a yard long; Jackie's deportment in public & private was to be supervised as thoroughly as Princess Elizabeth...
LAKE SUCCESS, July 24--Hopes for a compromise solution of the Balkan problem faded today when Russia turned down French proposals intended to "soften" the American plan for a powerful semi-permanent commission in the Halkans...
Among the few composers spared Mossman's working-over were Bach, Beethoven and Schumann. Last week Schumann took the count. Mossman published three Tin Pan Alley adaptations of Schumann, timed to soften up the U.S. for a movie on Schumann's life, Song of Love, in which Pianist Artur Rubinstein plays Schumann's music straight (TIME, May 26). Schumann's Träumerei will be crooned and swung as Fantasy; the song Widinung will be known as Dedication. From the great A Minor Piano Concerto, Mossman has wrung a vapid tune called A Love Story...