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...between booming songs, (Keel and chorus), and snow capped mountains, Fernando Lamas slinks in from the swamp and proceeds to capture the affections of naive Rose Marie. This is singularly ungratifying because besides being a poacher and corrupter of the wilderness, he is two-timing a cute little Indian bump and grind dancer named Jane Grey. It might be said with some justification here that Lamas, "who loves zee woods, and cannot stond zee ceeties and zee thought of zee zame ever'day", does not quite come across as a lover of the aesthetic. Even when he answers Ann Blyth...
...This is a mistake. The truth is there is a very desirable meeting ground between business and Government. It is a plateau that rises above the twin dangers of costly 'do-goodism' in the swamp to the left and shortsighted selfishness in the mountains to the right...
Indo-China is a swamp war: fought literally in the paddy-fields of the Red River delta, but fought actually in minds that no longer are stirred and in hearts where resignation, suspicion, frustration and a dogged sense of duty are in confused conflict...
...reputed to be the fastest in the U.S.* Last week swimmers from 53 colleges came to try it out in the National Collegiate Swimming Championships. In a splashy show, the Syracuse pool lived up to its buildup, and Ohio State, headed by its top trio from Hawaii, managed to swamp the opposition (including Yale's defending champions) for the eighth time in twelve years...
...million goggling Aussies whooped it up on the shore as the royal liner Gothic steamed into Sydney harbor. There were 1,000 private yachts, several Australian warships, scores of sightseeing steamers, and a school of hot-rod speedboats driven by cheering teenagers, who seemed more eager to swamp the police boats than to welcome their Queen. Cannon roared; sirens blew; wave after wave of fighter aircraft swooped low over the royal yacht. Her Majesty, helped by Philip, stepped ashore at Farm Cove, where the first English settlers (290 freemen and 717 convicts) landed...