Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your story (TiME, April 3) of Dr. Vannevar Bush and his 6,000 silent scientists is superb. Whether or not so intended, your record of these men, achieving magnificently yet anonymously and without personal credit or special compensation, is tongued with biting censure -for politicians who live and breathe for favorable headlines, businessmen who make profits prerequisite to patriotism, and every mother's son among us who thinks a ten-billion-dollar tax bill an excessive burden. The 6,000 give one a lift. Could they be bureaucrats...
Mozart's Haffner Symphony, which opened the program, was performed with superb spirit and interpretation, although the strings at times (especially in the second Andante movement) seemed a trifle muddy, a fault that often occurs even in the largest symphony orchestras...
Jules Semon Bache, broker and bon vivant, laid away his millions so thriftily that when he died last fortnight (TIME, April 3), U.S. art lovers found themselves beneficiaries of a superb art collection. Last week the 63 Bache (rhymes with aitch) paintings were still hanging in the Bache Manhattan mansion, which the collector had donated (1937) to house them, where they were on view upon application. When the war ends, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will house the approximately $12 million worth of Bache paintings where everybody can see them...
Cover Girl (Columbia) begins by undressing eight superb Technicolored chorines within an inch of the law, sets them to dancing as if they were trying to kick your chin and singing as if they were enjoying themselves too much to talk. The scene is a small Brooklyn nightclub full of whistling sailors. The 97-minute picture that unfolds from this frolicsome beginning is the best cinemusical the year has produced, and one of the best in years...
Only three numbers were impressive. They were "Chop-Chop" featuring a beautiful clarinet solo by Eari Bostic, Dinah Washington's rendition of Ellington's "Concerto for Cootie' now retitled "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me," and Hampton's superb vibraphone work ably backed by the Symphony strings on "Moonglow." There is no denying Lionel's artistry on this instrument and it is unfortunate that he neglected it most of the evening in favor of one finger piano solos and noisy drum exhibitions...