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Near the outset, the girls begin to yip like Chippewas and throw their skirts in the air while the orchestra saws out some Offenbach, and they kick up their legs in what can be precisely described as the can't-can't. Georges Ulmer, the man who wrote the ballad Pigalle and who acts as M.C., tells a joke: "The Folies-Bergère is an old institution, nearly 100 years old. Of course, lately we have changed some of the girls." He does not say which ones, and without radioactive carbon it is absolutely impossible to tell...
...Ulmer Turner, a Chicago news analyst with an expensive hobby, has been hearing some strange sounds lately out of Radio Moscow. Soviet propaganda. Turner reports, is getting a soft pedal. The time devoted to Russian music (especially Rimsky-Korsakov) is increasing, the announcers are sprouting Oxford accents, and a Big Ben touch has been added: "We pause now while you hear the clock in the Kremlin strike midnight." Turner does not claim to know the significance of these facts, but it is just the kind of information he has long wanted to give his listeners first hand. Last week...
Sirs: I wonder if John L. Ulmer (TIME, April 27) knows what he is talking about [in a letter saying, "If these people (the Japs) were allowed to go about their business as honorable, law-abiding Americans, no doubt the majority would behave as such."] In Alaska a couple of well-respected and honorable Jap-Americans proved that they were capable of "knifing in the back" the land of their adoption...
...Reader Ulmer underestimates the foresight and capabilities of respected Jap-Americans...
...JOHN L. ULMER, D.O. Toledo, Ohio...