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...Warehousemen and Helpers. When ist Vice President Bill Hutcheson departed, the twelve other v.p.s each moved up a notch, leaving a vacancy at the bottom. As head of the biggest A.F.L. union, Beck was an obvious choice. But the machinists' Al Hayes had been promised the next opening. Upshot: compromise. Beck became the 13th vice president, and Hayes' hopes were kept alive by a council recommendation to increase the number of v.p.s...
...Aviv, longed to transfer, but to his request Paris replied: "Coordinate your actions with the U.S. and Britain." The Italian chargé d'affaires responded to Sharett's invitation by offering to buy the Foreign Minister's Tel Aviv house now that Sharett was moving. Upshot: of the 25 emissaries accredited to Israel, only one-the Netherlands minister -is now in Jerusalem, and he has lived there all along...
...Cool (the bands of Jimmy McPartland and Dizzie Gillespie; M-G-M album). Four tunes played in strenuous alternation by Trumpeter McPartland's hot Dixielanders and Gillespie's bopsters. The predictable upshot: the cool school does best with the harmonic complexities of How High the Moon, the Dixielanders with the basic chords of Indiana. But both manage to give the oldtime Muskrat Ramble a fine bounce...
...writing atonal music for 40 years? And why do they keep on writing it? Furtwängler: "It cannot be denied that modern man finds in this music an echo of his own feelings . . . Atonal music expresses something of the enigmatic times in which we live." What will the upshot be? Furtwängler: "We must let matters ripen . . . The final decision will rest with human nature...
...British moved fast to repair the damage. A Parliamentary Commission hustled out to Accra, chastised the colonial administration for denying Negroes a voice in the government. The upshot was a brand-new constitution, with popular elections...