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...Louisianians turned out to give Ike a roaring welcome. In his brief speech in front of the historic Cabildo, the President hinted that he might seek lower tariffs. The whole American economy, he said, is dependent on foreign trade, and "this dependence is sure to increase as the tempo of our industry increases. It highlights the most compelling practical reason why we must have friends in the world...
This unsuccess story is about Carter Harman, TIME'S music critic and unofficial helicopter expert. These days, as the fall music season starts, he is working double-tempo to cover the concerts, operas and jazz sessions that make news...
With a less constant tempo, with some cutting, particularly in the extraneous and overly familiar episodes on shore-the wartime romance, the seaman's return to his bombed home, his faithless wife-The Cruel Sea would have been far more effective. As it is, the audience may be tempted after two hours to agree with the Captain when he says at the end of the film; "Two U-boats in five years. That's not very much, is it? R. E. OLDENBURG
...keeps the original tune in mind. It comes in three basic models: 1) slow and intimate, as in My Funny Valentine, when Marian seems to dissect the tune pensively, as if she were quartering an apple, then puts it all neatly together again better than new; 2) at breakneck tempo, as in Liza, where the tune dashes off in improbable directions and fetches up, quivering, back where it started; 3) production numbers, as in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, in which the pianist may start off in concert style, fall into a swinging beat, throw in a dash of counterpoint...
Italy's government and press were horrified at what appeared to be a retreat from the unequivocal declaration of 1948. "This," cried Rome's conservative Il Tempo, "sets off irreparably from the U.S. a block of 47 million inhabitants of one of the most civilized countries in the world [and] . . . opens the rosiest horizons for Malenkov and Togliatti." One Italian newspaper flung a well-remembered phrase back at the U.S. "Stab in the back!" it said...