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...roused that hope is a soldier whose name was almost completely unknown in Cairo, London or Washington seven weeks ago-Major General Mohammed Naguib (pronounced Nageeb). He is now acclaimed by his people as a savior, and by Western diplomats as the most promising figure to appear in the Middle East since Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk...
...constituted enfant terrible of music, for the Beecham legend stands on a rock of solid musical achievement. Most conductors specialize in symphonic music or opera, one or the other. Beecham specializes in both. What is more, he has probably forced through, against the odds, more performances of new or unknown works in both fields than any other two British conductors. He is, further, an impresario in the grand manner and tradition. He has given or raised vast sums of money for a multitude of large-scale musical undertakings. He has founded six separate orchestras. It is indeed hard...
Though he is often unjustly accused of it, Darwin never maintained that man is descended from creatures like modern apes or monkeys. He thought that both men and apes came from some unknown common ancestor in the remote past. People who have objected to being too closely related to the apes got new words of comfort last week from Britain...
...Hearst's New York American. Her husband had died, and she was supporting their young daughter Harriet, who is now a producer in Hollywood. Her first big break came when she fell ill of tuberculosis and Hearst shipped her to recuperate, on full salary, to an unknown California town called Palm Springs. When she went back to work a year later, Hearst ordered her to stay on in Hollywood, and his paper began syndicating her column. Louella...
...Hottest and most romantic rumor in California political circles today was that Governor Adlai Stevenson and Margaret Truman may make a trip to the altar-together. Political gossips point out that the Democratic presidential nominee was almost unknown until Margaret's papa, President Truman, lifted him from comparative obscurity and let it be known that he favored Stevenson...