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Behind the glassy facade of Strasbourg's "Capitol of Europe," the delegations of 15 nations finally came to a decision on the tempo and technique of European union. By a weighty majority (82 to 19, with 16 abstentions), the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe last week voted 1) to go slowly, and 2) to travel toward the goal via intergovernmental "specialized agencies...
Cole Porter's score is tuneful and captivating Quick changes of tempo carry the show along swiftly. His lyrics are alternately witty and romantic, and always charming. Some of the songs you will be hearing in about month are "Use Your Imagination," "Climb Up the Mountain," "Cherry Pies Ought to Be You," and "Nobody's Chasing Me;" but it must be made clear that these are only a few of many. Hanya Holm's choreography adds to both the pace and spectacle of the production. Janet Collins dances superbly and flawlessly in two beautiful scenes...
...time since the war began. With Chinese Communist soldiers and equipment pouring from Manchuria into North Korea, every bridge across the Yalu River became a target. By the hundreds, U.S. jets and piston-powered planes bombed, rocketed and machine-gunned roads, supply points and assembly areas. The tempo of the allied air attack brought Russian-made jets (see below) racing across the border into dogfights with U.S. jets and piston planes. The Reds lost 48 planes in ten days. Maximum demolition and fire bomb attacks were delivered by 6-293 upon the key river-crossing cities of Sinuiju (temporary North...
...music business, a rough & ready seismograph of all public concerns, was beginning to zigzag to the war in Korea. Biggest of a crop of new patriotic songs sprouting along Tin Pan Alley was a brash tune in march tempo called The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got in the Old Red, White and Blue. Dashed off in ten minutes last May by Bickley (Stop Beating 'Round the Mulberry Bush) Reichner and British Songwriter Jimmy Kennedy,* it had been around almost all summer before Band Leader Ralph Flanagan persuaded RCA Victor to let him record...
That kind of driving did more than win him the first heat. It also set a heat record with an average of 80.1 m.p.h., while four of the eight starters were being forced out with mechanical trouble under the punishing pace. My Sweetie and Tempo VI were among the survivors, and in the second heat My Sweetie forged into a long lead. Then its engine caught fire, and Slo-Mo-Shun again rocketed home first, with an average of 80.9 m.p.h...