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...Iowa Bankers' Association convention at Des Moines, Bob Taft* and Harold Stassen were as chummy as classmates at a college reunion. They had breakfast together. They appeared together for lunch at a Republican rally and were greeted by an orchestral medley of Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee and Beautiful Ohio. Then both spoke from the same dais. Said Taft, warmly: "Governor Stassen and I have differed on many issues . . . but we are prepared to compromise our individual views to ... maintain the solidarity of the party." Replied Harold Stassen: "I have a deep respect for [Taft's] integrity...
...plays it to a fare-thee-well is England's durable matinee idol, 54-year-old Ivor Novello. A kind of poor woman's Noel Coward, Novello also wrote the play and composed its half dozen hit songs. As playwright, he instinctively senses the emotional desires of a woolgathering audience. As composer, he sets his public's daydreams to soft, sugary music. As actor he hams it for all it is worth...
...letter-perfect footwork, the Band knows the score musically as well. Bandsmen proudly explain that "Wintergreen," their most popular number, has more to it than meets the ear and is actually a blending of 2 Harvard, 2 Yale, 1 Dartmouth, and 1 Princeton songs, all mixed in with "Of Thee I Sing" and then wafted up the aisles of the Stadium. The semicircle formation used to offset the alphabetical parade down the field is an original idea and "Wintergreen" when first heard was considered a daring innovation. People weren't sure whether concert-type arrangements should be introduced...
...rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
...letter to the New York Herald Tribune, a reader suggested a prayer for landlords, taken from the Book of Common Prayer of England's Edward VI, who died in 1553: "We heartily pray Thee to send Thy Holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds and pastures of the earth, that they, remembering themselves to be Thy tenants, may not rack or stretch out the rents of their houses or lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines or money after the manner of covetous worldlings, but so to let them out that the inhabitants thereof...