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Skolsky, in his stubborn, amateur way, explained his idea to Columbia: "I want to use the Jolson voice, but I want it to come out of a young man's face." The result is as clever a synchronization job as Hollywood ever turned out. Jolson himself sang the sound track, but the camera watched a 30-year-old actor named Larry Parks, who pored over old Jolson records and films until he could reproduce every gesture, genuflection and grimace...
...great significance to the U.S. press, or to anyone interested in faster, more direct overseas communications. For one thing, these machines do away with several time-consuming operations, such as having to transcribe messages from Morse code into words. They also promise a solution to one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in overseas communication: the job of getting the message from the office of the communications company in, say, Bombay, to TIME'S Bombay office. In most cases delivery is now in the hands of local officials, and it may take from one hour to three days...
...medical treatment-e.g., a mild, unstimulating diet-and a change to a less exacting job. The remaining 20% may be relieved by removal of ulcerated sections of the stomach or intestines, but often new ulcers break out after the operation. All the vagotomy cases were in this stubborn group...
...Doin' What Comes Natur'lly went through extensive alterations. . . . The line 'You don't have to go to a private school not to turn up your bustle to a stubborn mule' became 'Not to pick up a penny from a stubborn mule.' . . . Another verse about Grandpa Bill and his new wife. 'There he is at 93, doin' what comes natur'lly' . . . was thrown out and 'Uncle Ben, who stole chickens just as naturally as he breathed,' was substituted...
Trieste was the test. Byrnes had been stubborn on one point: the city would not be handed over to Tito. But at the meetings Byrnes showed great flexibility on details ; although opposed in general to internationalized cities (too much like Danzig), he was even willing to see Trieste put under international control for five or ten years. Molotov waited quietly for word from his Vozhd (boss) in Moscow...