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...Confess (Sarah Vaughan; Columbia). Singer Vaughan, more restrained than usual, does a thoroughly professional job on a new song. A Lover's Quarrel, on the other side, is mountain music, and no business of Sarah...
...Army aide is mustachioed Lieut. Colonel Robert L. Schulz, 45, no Ned Beach, but also no Harry Vaughan. Traffic Expert Schulz spent the war years as a Washington transportation officer, getting plane and train reservations for Army brass. After Ike came home in 1945, Schulz was assigned the job of seeing to the general's transportation needs. Colonel Schulz made himself so useful that Ike has kept him around ever since...
...pension-conscious reporter asked the Pentagon about the future pay of a few officers who are about to retire. The answer: Reserve Colonel Harry Truman, Field Artillery, will get retirement pay of $112.56 a month. His old friend and aide Harry Vaughan will retire with 75% of his major general's base pay, plus a 40% disability claim, which will bring his monthly check to at least...
...most composers, growing old means growing mellower. But for England's Ralph Vaughan Williams, 80, the process is reversed. Last week the Halle Orchestra unveiled his seventh symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, and it proved as bleak as its title. Public and press, long accustomed to warmth in Vaughan Williams, went away with a case of chills...
...audience seemed vague about what it all meant, but were won over by the massive orchestration, applauded for five minutes. A mountain-climbing enthusiast approved: "On the top of a mountain, you get exactly the same feeling. If he can get that over, he's terrific." Old Composer Vaughan Williams was vaguest of all about the performance: his hearing aid broke down early in the concert...