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...Nose for the Times. The team sang their hilarious swan song in the Broadway musical The New Yorkers. This engagement led to a story which, if apocryphal, is characteristically and profoundly Durante. In The New Yorkers, Father Durante, 81, is said to have seen Jimmy perform for the first time. After the show, Jimmy confidently asked: "Well, pop, how'd ya like my work?" Said aged Father Durante: "Lissen son, les not get in an argument...
...Swan Browder sang a moving goodby. He sang of a beautiful world-a-coming, with "the two-party system traditional in our country" working to everybody's satisfaction, the system of free enterprise "beyond question" operating "to the benefit of labor, farmers and capital"-in short, at last the full realization of the Communist Party program. He had achieved his life's fulfillment, and now he could joyfully close his eyes for the long rest. As to his party, it will devote its remaining days to the cause of education in general, in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson...
...would stir a possessive itch. The plates are so handsome as to prove that, even in reproduction, fine drawings can give a tactile pleasure in addition to their esthetic worth. De Tolnay's definition of drawing includes some forms of watercolor work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head...
...true imperturbability. As "the brain" and foil of the comedy team of Burns & Allen (CBS, Tues., 9-9:30 p.m E.W.T.), he was thankful that his old vaudeville routines, neatly brought up to modern times, were worth $10,000 a week as a package show to his sponsor (Swan Soap), and he was delighted with the show's 15,000,000-odd listeners...
...Swan Mazda is still produced and sold in Britain...