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...Conservatively governed Malaya has squelched its Communist guerrillas; surviving Communists are now taking Abdul Rahman's amnesty offer in heartening numbers. The fact that 40% of the population is Chinese is a potential source of conflict, but both sides are currently cooperating eagerly to consolidate the new state. Tin and rubber keep Malaya in dollars...
...Hollywood, Tony looks fine. His latest picture: Paramount's The Tin Star. Waiting to be released are three other films he cranked out for Paramount this year-The Matchmaker, with Shirley Booth, Desire Under the Elms, with Sophia Loren, and This Bitter Earth, with Jo Van Fleet. Two earlier Perkins films are still packing them in: Fear Strikes Out, the story of Red Sox Outfielder Jimmy Piersall, and Friendly Persuasion, made with his good friend and sometime mentor, Gary Cooper...
...some gifts. This was enough to give London's gossipists a field day. They variously reported that Philip gave the Queen a piece of jewelry designed by himself, a big bouquet of white carnations, a gleaming electric kettle that puckishly seemed to combine a private joke with their "tin" anniversary. Parlaying the secrecy, London's Sunday Express knowingly surmised that the royal family was shocked and dismayed when Princess Margaret skipped out for a theater party, failed to appear at the palace festivities until just before they ground to a midnight halt...
...usually poor and the jazz was worse, but nobody seemed to care. Record business was being done by dim little jazz spots such as the Sail'N and the Black Hawk-the Taj Mahal of West Coast jazz, where Dave Brubeck blew himself to fame. And at the Tin Angel, on the waterfront, Trumpeter Dick Mills and his combo were playing with the man who started the poetry-and-jazz trend, Poet Kenneth Rexroth. decked out in red shirt, olive green corduroy suit and black string tie. "Lord! Lord! Lord!" cried Rexroth happily. "Look how it packs them...
...militant evangelism. From the husky-voiced zeal of Billy Sunday to the polished fervor of Billy Graham, the camera caught arresting glimpses of believers throbbing with the joy of religion. A Negro named Cat-Iron Carradino croaked a hymn and plucked his guitar as he carried the message down Tin Can Alley in Natchez, Miss. The face of Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson seemed to take on a celestial glow as she belted her way through a hymn in her Chicago church. Narrator-Host John Crosby, looking better on film than live (TIME, Nov. 18), avoided any religious comment. His secular...