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Though record and sheet-music sales were still climbing, other complaints were being raised in Britain about Puddy-Tat last week. Mocked a columnist in "London's News Chronicle: "Dis is wot de gwown-ups sing, diddums." Disc Jockey Costa had received several mildly abusive letters from anti-puddy...
Last week, in Paris, a greying cavalry officer, the Marquis Andre de Belleval, fleetingly rustled the tatters of the once great legend of Petain. He and some 500 other sympathizers of the old man attended a public auction of Petain's books and household effects (no ribbons, no medals...
He pounded the perfectionists who roared like lions when the San Francisco conference in 1945 didn't whip up a lovely world government. The all-or-nothing group is still moaning about the "lost chance," but Elliott declared that such a full-blown super-state, if somebody had tried to...
Since Copernicus, scientists, in trying to explain away the miracle of Christmas, have only increased the mystery. So most modern painters-the expressionists who try to satisfy themselves with flaunting their own fragile tatters of personal experience, and the abstractionists who take refuge in a pseudo-scientific picture of life...
The treason trials, as she records them, were not just the raw pulp of daily news, tatters of irrelevant wretchedness or cold inquests of justice upon a succession of dingy destinies. They become three-dimensional-as events in a process of history, which Miss West views as organic and continuously...