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...Delhi's Y.M.C.A. was an Indian Christian Princess, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who in 1930 renounced her father's palace in Lucknow, became a Christian (Presbyterian), and is now India's Minister of Health. "Billy Graham," she said, "is one of those rare jewels who tread this earth periodically and draw, by their lives and teaching, millions of others closer...
...points. He has addressed himself to the honorable task of making a novel of his two-year experiences in the Army Medical Corps, European theater, and no one will doubt that he knows his war. Yet before the reader has trudged a few pages, he will hear the heavy tread of that regiment of dismounted cavalry which wears the insignia of Hemingway...
...programing, Angel sometimes rushes in where even the foolhardy fear to tread, e.g., it has released such a risque modern work as Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Teresias. But there is also a large quota of safe and popular items-currently a new Madama Butterfly (the seventh on LP) ^and Oistrakh playing Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. On the chic side, there are exquisite performances of the most sensuous musings of Debussy (Trois Nocturnes, La Mer) and Ravel (Daphnis et Chloe, L'Heure Espagnole}. There are also imposing works of Stravinsky and Bartok...
...unofficial basis. The struggle to repeal the Taft-Hartley Bill made the actions of the LLPE and the PAC even more partisan and, in 1952, both AFL and CIO conventions formally approved Stevenson. American labor had finally, and perhaps irrevocably, entered the ground upon which it had feared to tread...
...Harold Hamilton, former G.M. vice president supervising its locomotive division, pointed out, however, that the company had actually lost ground during the war, its share of the market dropping from 67% in 1940 to 40% in 1943. Moreover, added G.M., it had ventured where its competitors had feared to tread: it spent $26 million developing diesels before realizing one cent, put up another $5,000,000 to finance sales to railroads. Next, Vice President Thomas Butler of the Flxible Co. of Loudonville, Ohio, charged that G.M. had refused to supply him with G.M. bus diesels because he was a competitor...