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There will be no bunting in Philadelphia's Convention Hall. The opening song will be no jaunty, vote-inviting parody, but the spine-tingling Ballad for Americans: It will come again-our marching song will come again, Simple as a hit tune, deep as our valleys, High as our mountains, strong as the people who made...
...fanciful reconstruction called Xochi-pili-Macuilxochitl after the Aztec god of music, the dance, flowers, love-was the real stuff. But it really sounded like an Aztec jam session. Flutes and pipes shrilled and wailed, a trombone (subbing for the snail shell) neighed an angular melody, to the spine-tingling thump-and-throb of drums, gourds, rattles. Xochipili-Macuil-xochitl sounded almost as primitive as Stravinsky...
...another way. They give hypertonic (heavy) glucose injections to patients in coma or shock. The glucose, thicker than body fluids, sucks out fluid from the tissues through osmotic pressure. thus reduces tension in the brain. ¶ Also harmful, say Drs. Gross & Ehrlich. is the common practice of lumbar puncture (spine-tapping) to examine the spinal fluid soon after a head injury. During the first few hours after the accident, the body tries to restore the balance between blood and cerebro-spinal fluid. Withdrawal of fluid "might possibly interfere with this...
Ballad For Americans (Victor). Two-disc album of the patriotic spine-tingler first heard on the Pursuit of Happiness radio program (TIME, Nov. 20). Discounting the influence of Poets Whitman, MacLeish, Anderson and Composer Kurt Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday) on the script and score of Messrs. Robinson and Latouche, even sophisticated listeners should get a kick out of this hopeful musical U. S. history. Paul Robeson, as the Voice Nobody Knows until the last stanza, sings bravely...
...hospital with suitcases labeled M.D. (Mule Drivers), are mistaken for two medicos, end in jail. The show is garnished with such slapstick as putting a patient to sleep by letting him smell an old shoe, such gags as "Your head sets on one end of your spine and you set on the other." Silas gets broad at times, but never really dirty. What keeps it moving are its dances and specialty acts, its gold-toothed but good-looking chorus...