Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schwartz feels that the MacArthur projects would involve us in a full-scale war, in China--"just what the Russians want." Only if the tempo of the air war steps up in Korea and the Chinese Communists start using a great many more planes would we be justified in bombing Manchuria, he said...
...cemetery with the Dixieland quartet leading the way. On the way and at the grave, the boys would play High Society, Muskrat Ramble, Jazz Me Blues, and anything else they thought Jimmy might like. But they would finish up with Nearer, My God, to Thee, in hymn tempo. That was Mama's idea...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 (the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). A superb new recording of a Beethoven giant. Walter's tempo is a trifle faster than is customary, and the result is a triumph. Recording: excellent...
...Bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Tempo VI, the National Sweepstakes (speedboat) championship ten-mile race; at Red Bank...
Down You Go (Wed. 9 p.m., DuMont) is another TV quiz show, this time based on the old parlor game of "Hangman." Unlike many others, it has a relaxed tempo, some briskly intelligent repartee, and gives the impression that the participants are actually enjoying themselves. As moderator, Northwestern University's Dr. Bergen (The Natural History of Nonsense) Evans handles his four-man panel of experts with the assurance of a high-voiced Clifton Fadiman...