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...English and Afrikaans, she piping a shy descant. But in the past year Minstrel Marais has turned popular songsmith. His songs of the veld, such as Sugarbush, Ay-round the Corner and the fast-rising Ma Says, Pa Says, have been recorded by such big-league songbirds as Jo Stafford and Doris...
Marais and Miranda sing a song called Chow, Willy which he reconstructed from a South African song about a rat, a mouse and a frog. Columbia Records' pop artists & repertory chief, Mitch Miller, decided it would be just the thing for Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine. Marais invented a man named Willy and changed the song's animals to people. "It would not be nice to bill Mr. Laine as a rat and Miss Stafford as a mouse," says Marais. Moreover, as Columbia Records could have told him, and perhaps did, the jukebox trade seldom gets excited about...
Broadway's Best (Jo Stafford; Columbia LP). Several of these eight songs deserve to be ranked with the "best," e.g., Embraceable You, Night and Day, Come Rain or Come Shine, but not even Jo's pretty voice is appealing enough to survive the grief-stricken tempos...
...joined the Free French in Algiers. After the liberation of Paris, De Gaulle made him Public Works and Transportation Minister; later, French Commissioner for German Affairs. In 1947 he represented France at the U.N. As Finance Minister in the first Schuman cabinet, he devalued the franc over Sir Stafford Cripps's objections. Becoming Finance Minister again in 1951, he angered France (and helped topple the government of Rene Pleven) by introducing, and sticking to, an austerity budget plan. Commented Mayer: "A good Finance Minister is always unpopular." In debate he is austere and biting: admired, not adored. Foreign Policy...
Born. To John George Chetwynd-Talbot, 38, the 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lady Shrewsbury, 39: their fifth child, first son and thus heir, since the title and estate (a castled 8,000 acres) descend through the male line; in Stafford, England. Weight...