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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oriental spell extends beyond Miyoshi and Pat. Wilbur, the stern-eyed stage-door guard, feels that the Oriental chorus girls are politer and less brassy than the usual types; the director and the choreographer feel that the whole cast is more disciplined and quicker to learn. Says Oscar Hammerstein: "It's a strange flavor they have. They don't fawn, they don't scrape, they listen carefully. I don't think they're any more intelligent than other people, but I think the intelligence is less obscured by neuroticism." Translates Dick Rodgers: "We have...
Signs are, moreover, that all the disengagement schemes so far suggested would be just as unacceptable to Russia as they are to the West. The upheavals in East Germany, Hungary and Poland have surely convinced Moscow that withdrawal of Soviet troops from any of the satellites would spell the downfall of the local Communist regime...
...Kremlin's new plans, which also include closing down unprofitable coal mines at Zwickau, cutting output of machine tools that Russia now produces, curtailing expansion of the ill-placed Stalinstadt steel works, building a merchant marine for Red China, and collectivizing more potato lands, spell harsh new shutdowns and uprootings for the East Germans. Nonetheless, it is a complete reversal of Russia's postwar practice of ripping up railroads, carrying off generators and machine tools...
...like a tippler who stays on the wagon for weeks only to allow himself an occasional major binge. After a long dry spell, CBS and ABC last weekend went on a big, glorious bender...
...chosen sales pitches. In the midst of Beethoven's biggest score was a commercial with slick, whiny music (written by a freelance arranger named Mitch Lee). And immediately after the triumphant choral movement, while the timpani had scarcely stopped vibrating and the listener was still under the spell of the music, an oily announcer's voice heralded a "visit with Mrs. Igor Cassini," who then proceeded, on film, to demonstrate the charms of the new Lincoln Continental...