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...Boston this week, the great Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad made her first U.S. concert appearance since the war. It was easy for Boston, as it had been for London, Paris and Milan, to succumb to the persuasion of Flagstad's magnificent singing. She had shrewdly chosen an Easter program of Beethoven, Grieg and Brahms-and five U.S. composers. But the audience had not forgotten the roles that had made her famous, and shouted for Wagner. On the fifth encore she gave...
...concluded on a pessimistic note that liberalism might succumb to depression pressures unless liberals were willing to come out of their armchairs and fight...
...rugged-faced man with quizzical brown eyes and an air of engaging diffidence, he won unanimous approval from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The British, fed up with the transatlantic funeral wreaths hurled at them lately, were delighted when he stated that their character was "too strong" to succumb to their present difficulties...
Meanwhile each governor announced that he expected to get paid at the rate of $12,000 a year. Each appointed state officers. Hummon's had the edge, since they were confirmed by the state senate. But the processes of government began to succumb to a sort of galloping schizophrenia. The 200 Georgia banks which handle state money didn't know which governor to recognize; and one-the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta-prepared to institute legal action to find out who was really...
Margie McDuff is a thoroughly nice high-school girl, on love with most everyone around, equipped with a social conscience, a catarrhal boy-friend and a fortress of an aunt. Her major handicap schemed to be a pair of nervous drawers which succumb to the excitement at least three throughout the film and slump ignominiously to the ground, thereby embarrassing Miss McDuff only one quarter as much as all unsuspecting males in the audience. Miss McDuff's drawers become so excruciatingly annoying that at last debacle, when the sweet young thing is dancing in the arms of the handsome teacher...