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Hulking Gregor Piatigorsky, topflight cello virtuoso, would like to see younger musicians get ahead, too. But last week in San Diego, where he paused between concert tours, Cellist Piatigorsky took a swipe at an old method of helping young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer...
...member who might sometimes toss in an ad-lib dum-dee-dee-dee), but calls for S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. men who can drop (the bass singer drops down one octave at the close of the song), scoop (hitting a note on the flat side and sliding up to proper pitch) and swipe (singing a progression of two or more chords on a single word or syllable...
...Marry provides little of sound advice for the working girl, it supplies even less in the way of entertainment. Miss Bacall's gold-digging, about as subtle as a swipe with a pickaxe, is only intermittently amusing. The performances of her two friends, however, are a bit more polished. Miss Monroe, particularly, inhales with authority...
...There is still no scientific evidence that fancy ingredients in tooth paste, tooth powder, mouth washes or chewing gum will keep teeth from decaying, the American Dental Association declared. Its annual convention (in Cleveland) berated dentifrice advertisers for false claims, also took a swipe at soft-drink peddlers for pretending that their concoctions don't harm teeth. The association's rules for dental health: use less sugar, brush teeth regularly with any powder or paste that helps the brush to clean them...
Moody also took a swipe at the "northern coal operators . . . who actually are spokesmen for and representatives of another industry . . . The primary concern of the coal mines which are owned by the steel industry is not the price of coal. [It] is the welfare of the steel industry...