Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international conference season was in full swing: ¶Barely 48 hours after signing the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco, the U.S.'s Dean Acheson, Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, and France's Robert Schuman sat down in Washington for a new round of talks. Stated agenda: "The world." Highest priority item: a postwar settlement with West Germany. The Western Big Three want to end the last occupation controls, substantially restore West German sovereignty. The U.S. hopes for a finished plan by late fall, France and Britain are in less of a hurry. ¶Also...
...British-Iranian game of tit for tat was in full swing again. After the earnest, sober interlude of the Harriman mission, Teheran and London were once more trading threats and accusations, with each side hoping to break the other's will...
Robert Maxwell, 28, is one of the top supper-club attractions in Manhattan just now because 1) he learned to play the harp in a good school (Juilliard) and 2) he soon got tired of classic tempos. The Maxwell contribution to Manhattan's current nightlife: harping in swing style...
...Maxwell performance one night last week began with a fast, explosive samba, went on to a sentimental arrangement of Kurt Weill's September Song and a plunky version of I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover. The final numbers: a medley of Gershwin tunes and a swing arrangement of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Says Maxwell: "I play Liszt as I think Liszt would play if he were alive today." The supper-club crowd hushed down to devoted silence for Maxwell's 20-minute performance, even when their glasses stood empty...
...arrangements he needed. Then he joined the Coast Guard and got a chance to play for a while in Lieut. Rudy Vallee's bluejacket orchestra. Since then, he has been what he wants to be: a soloist. Some nightclub managers shudder at the thought of a swing harpist, but Maxwell is making inroads and good money. Income last year...