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...Moscow, overshot the London airport runway and nosed over. From the crushed cabin, Britain's Secretary for Overseas Trade J. Harold Wilson emerged and said casually: "Now I have got to see a doctor as my ribs hurt me." Next day he went to tell his chief, Sir Stafford Cripps, that Britain's trade mission to Moscow had also crashed. It was unlikely that the mission would return to Russia...
...something inside themselves that's new and different . . . . They aren't trying to write like Hemingway . . . . Lately things have been picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean (The Mountain Lion} Stafford, Thomas (Mister Roberts) Heggen, A. B. (The Big Sky) Guthrie Jr., and shared Robert Penn Warren's enthusiasm for Eudora (Delta Wedding) Welty...
When it comes to music, U.S. college kids know what they like. In Billboard's ninth annual college poll, out last week, they still preferred sweet to swing, had the same favorite girl singers (Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore, Peggy Lee) and liked the same swing band (Stan Kenton's) as last year. Tommy Dorsey's sweet band was no longer tops (actually he had disbanded it. but it was voted second best anyway). The new favorite: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Among male singers, Bing Crosby lost first place to Frank Sinatra for the first...
...caught the easy-to-catch but hard-to-hold ear of burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until she ran off to Columbia last year, signed Beryl, and agreed to help coach her into...
Awarded to Robert Penn Warren, 42, Southern poet-novelist: the Pulitzer Prize, for his novel about a Huey Longish demagogue, All the King's Men (TIME, Aug. 26). To Robert Lowell, 29, cousin of the late Poetess Amy Lowell (and husband of Novelist Jean Stafford), went the poetry prize, for Lord Weary's Castle (TIME, Dec. 16). Both prizes had been skipped last year; this year the judges decided to skip the drama prize...