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...first appeared in the lovelorn column of the Denver Post. But it got around town faster than the biggest Page One story. In Denver offices clippings were passed from hand to hand; secretaries read it over the telephone to each other. Husbands returning home from work had it thrust upon them by their wives, all of whom seemed to have a triumphant gleam in their eyes. By wire service the letter was sent around the U.S. TV stations picked...
Composer Giordano (1867-1948) made his most successful effort with Chénier (others: Fedora, Madame Sans-Gene). The opera's melodies may sing a little too much like Verdi's without Verdi's dramatic thrust; its flow may be as slippery as Wagner's without Wagner's soaring sense of continuity. But it has a ravishing choral addio (Act I), a roof-raising farewell duet, and cannily applause-getting arias for all of its principal singers...
...page leaves in the calendar will be turned fifty-four times before the Democrats can take control of the machinery of Congress. But already they are supporting the President's campaign argument against the transfer of Congressional responsibility from the Republicans. He predicted that such a result would thrust partisan obstacles in his path. The Senate Democratic Policy Committee this week made the following policy decisions by way of proving it: 1) Not to permit the special Senate session to confirm the President's pending appointments, two to the Atomic Energy Commission and another to the Supreme Court...
...Southeast Asian: its people eat rice, speak Bengali, and complain that they do not have the influence at Karachi to which their preponderant numbers entitle them. In local elections last March, the East Pakistanis rejected the national Moslem League leadership so thoroughly that the newly elected officials were thrust aside and military rule was imposed from Karachi...
Princeton faced the Cantabs from Harvard in the second half. Charley Caldwell's Tigers, caged for most of this season, seemed ready to fulfill the predictions of greatness which have been predicted for them by the sportswriters from the Metropolitan (New York) area. But every time they thrust into the darkened shadows of the Crimson goalposts the breaks went against them and they lost...