Word: vanguardism
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Patrons of Manhattan's Village Vanguard have long been bombarded by the roughest, readiest folk music in the U.S. Last week they were finding the red-blooded singing of a dark-eyed Israeli woman as stirring in its way as the best of Leadbelly, the Weavers and Chippie Hill. Her name: Shoshana Damari...
Last fall Promoter Max Nemirof hired Shoshana as star of the show at his new Israeli cabaret in Manhattan. Her singing kept customers coming back for five months. After her Vanguard appearance, she is planning a three-month coast-to-coast tour...
...Chinese Eastern Railroad, he went along; his assignment was to recruit Manchurian volunteers for the Soviet forces. A year later, he slipped into the Shanghai underground, then went on to the interior to join the Chinese Red army in Kiangsi province under Mao Tse-tung. He led the vanguard of the celebrated Long March in 1934-35, which brought the Chinese Reds to the northwest around Yenan...
...police had promised protection to the workers, but trouble started before the workers reached the plant. Armed hoodlums set fire to a La Prensa truck drawn up outside its garage, slashed the tires of three others. As the vanguard of unarmed workers swung into the final block, gun-toting thugs fanned out across the street and began to fire. One Prensa worker was killed, 14 others injured. Other workers, screaming "Assassins!" at two unheeding cops, grabbed up sticks and pipes and pursued the goons. Then, entering the plant, they set right to work...
...General Liu Po-cheng, parts of it recently marched into Tibet and are lending aid to the Indo-Chinese Reds against the French. Liu trained for his profession at the Red Army Academy in Moscow, once fought with the Red Russians against Manchurian Warlord Chang Tso-lin, led the vanguard of the epic Long March from central China to Yenan in 1934-35, rates as one of the army's boldest tacticians...