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...Tra la la, tra...
...kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such as The Alphabet Song, Counting Song (Cricket), good-neighbor songs, meet-the-orches-tra productions, and stories accompanied by adulterated symphonic scores, e.g., Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline (RCA Victor). ¶ Special songs, which too often turn out to be inoffensive words set to poverty-stricken pop rhythms, or sugar-coated with a moral, as in Apple on a Stick (moral: share the goodies...
...named William Elaine Richardson departed one day last week for his office, the main Mexico City branch of the First National City Bank of New York. As usual, there was a brisk flutter of papers and a businesslike reaching for telephones when he arrived; Richardson maintains the no-nonsense tra dition of banking, runs his office with taut efficiency. But on that day last week there was more than routine importance to his arrival. It was his last; at 65, the banker who opened First National City's first Mexican branch 27 years ago was hanging up his Homburg...
When the Hands Harden. Odette is a member of the Institut Seculaire de Tra-vailleuses Missionnaires de Marie Immaculee, and there are 24 young women like her. After five years in apprenticeship and study, they don white robes and gold rings as "Brides of Jesus." They do not take vows but merely pledge themselves to poverty, chastity and obedience (vows are not possible until the Roman Catholic church recognizes the Institut as a religious order). Then they exchange their robes for ordinary clothes, and for the rest of their working lives, they live and labor among the poor...
...Soldiers Field, Athletic Director William Bingham was busy denying the Carnegle Report on Intercollegiate Athletics, which claimed that Crimson athletes had a share in concession profits. The football team, meanwhile, was busy edging Yale, 10-6, and football fans had again stolen the Elis' fence, the tra- ditional background for Yale's Captain pictures. It was later mysteriously returned...