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...Harlem once-famed Heavyweight Harry ("The Black Panther") Wills, now 51, entered the third week of his annual monthlong hot-&-cold-water diet, was down from 260 Ib. to 215, felt "as full of vigor as when...
...been mastered, the opening dissonance was clean, the final "We Hear Liberty" rang out, and with very few and minor exceptions the performance was all that could have been expected. There was no lack of smoothness, maturity, etc, by the non-professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor . . . their driving energy . . . their sincere desire to please 'Koussy' and the audience." The music itself is angular, rough, forceful, enthusiastic. Particular attention and praise also should be called to the plaintive woodwin solos at the close of "Look Down, Fair Moon," and the God knows-how-many voice orchestral fugue...
...human life for my relatives to become Anglo-Saxonized-the apparent goal of the melting pot theorists? . . . Was it necessary that they try to change themselves? Didn't America need their wisdom and their warmth, just as they and their children needed America's youth and vigor...
Pittsburgh (Universal) is a pretentious attempt to picture the coarseness, the turbulent vigor and the ambition of the big steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
This was a riot. Embarrassed by the unabashed vigor of his audience, Hope stammered, perspired, muffed his lines, ignored the microphone. He signaled the howling, squealing WAACS to take it easy. They were ruining his tag lines by laughing too soon. When he came back after the broadcast to tell them how wonderful they were, an auxiliary shrilled: "You're wonderful...