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Last week the barkers were having a picnic. It was as if Barnum & Bailey had come to the Balkans. Under the big Red top the Soviet Bear was calling the acts. In the spotlight the Cominform, nine-headed dog of the Kremlin, was beating up on Tito, Yugoslavia's own ringmaster. And the Communist puppets clapped like...
...customers with her Rockin' Chair. In the Manhattan basement called Café Society, she made the fans wait for what they had all come to hear. Not a pound under weight (at 190) in a shroudlike black gown, her swarthy features and shoe-button eyes gleaming in the spotlight, she teased them first with a couple of new ones - but in the familiar, sweetly sighing Bailey style. ("I couldn't sing big if I wanted to.") When they kept roaring for it, she finally gave them Rockin' Chair with a real tear glistening...
...Science cannot escape its social responsibilities," sighed Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, "but it was so nice when science was considered unimportant and was not in the spotlight...
With impending draft legislation prominent in the College spotlight, the University Marine Corps unit announced yesterday that it can accept 12 more men in its College officer-procurement program...
Seventeenth-century music will get the spotlight in the Polyphonic Choir's concert tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Christ Church, 1 Garden Street. The Chorus and orchestra will give Carissinil's "Jephte" and Buxtchude's "Rejoice, Beloved Christians...