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...from this morass of penny-pinching and inadequacy one new vista has at last opened. Though the University has relaxed its iron-clad rule only slightly, one department now at least partly shares the spotlight of advance information that General Education once held all by itself. Now the undergraduate with an eye towards dabbling a bit in Social Relations, the concentrator looking for now courses to conquer, and the prospective graduate student all have some sort of concrete preview of what lies behind those 32 brief listings in the back of the catalogue. Perhaps now some of the hasty shuffling...
Offense. One day last week Hugh Dalton strode confidently across the tessellated inner lobby of the House of Commons; he knew that he held Britain's spotlight. In his battered red leather dispatch box were the secrets of Britain's interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political correspondent for London's evening Star, cheerily hailed his old friend Dalton as he approached the door of the House, asked jokingly about the budget. Dalton threw a jovial arm around Carvel's shoulders and, remembering that the journalist liked a nip now & then, said: "John, your whiskey...
...same time that Kennedy was blowing his trumpet and cornet in Cambridge, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke were in the national spotlight on these instruments respectively. Both are among the cornerstones of Kennedy's record collection, which also includes nearly every now priceless record Bing Crosby made before he started to groan and ceased to sing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys...
...judge from a recent album of re-issues called Louis Armstrong Paris, 1934, (Vox Spotlight No.300) the high C lovers were not disappointed. Louis must have been in wonderful physical condition. Though his tone had already thinned down, and his improvisations would sometimes degenerate into redundant lip exercises, his playing had a certain, since lost brilliance, and if like later virtuosos he prostituted his art as a concession to the franc, still it remained a rather original kind of prostitution...
...polar calm of Hollywood's Ciro's, whose audiences are notoriously cool to anyone who isn't yet fashionable in Manhattan, Kay Thompson was packing them in at $3,000 a week. Dressed in one of her 25 sleek slack-suits, Comedienne Thompson stepped into the spotlight, looking like a caricature of the neurotic, world-weary woman of the '20s. Bouncing about behind her were the four young, mobile-faced Williams brothers, who served as a kind of combination corps de ballet and hot choir. Anything went: patter, pantomime or pratfalls, and Pauvre Suzette, a song...