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...situation is gradually changing. Among the strongest challenges to the North's dominance of Southern finance is an institution revered by Southerners but little known to most other Americans: North Carolina's Wachovia Bank & Trust. Situated in the South's most highly industrialized state, Wachovia (pronounced Wah-ko-via) is the biggest bank between Phila delphia and Dallas, serves 37 of the nation's 50 major corporations. Though still fairly small by Northern standards -it ranks 38th among all U.S. banks - Wachovia has just passed $1 billion in assets. To symbolize its rising prominence, it will...
DUKE ELLINGTON: MARY POPPINS (Reprise). The Duke leaves all the Hollywood sugar in these twelve pieces from the Disney movie and adds some corn (a growling trumpet, a wah-wah trombone). But there is deftness in most of his gentle transformations, and he seems to enjoy playing with the little pieces. The virtuosos of his big band step forward solemnly to play the songs of Mr. Banks, the children and the chimney sweep, and Saxophonist Paul Gonsalves scampers through Mary Poppins' exultant solo faster than one can say supercalifragilistic-expialidocious...
...Material came from home too. When Ethel Merman sang the funny patter song By the Mississine-wah in 1943's Something for the Boys, she was singing about the river that flowed through the 750-acre property in rural Indiana, where Cole Porter was raised. His father was an Indiana fruitgrower, and his grandfather was a coal and timber baron worth $50 million. As a boy, Porter was a prodigy who was writing songs before he was ten. When he got to Yale (class of 1913), he immortalized the college mascot; Yalemen will remember him forever as the chap...
Around a green baize table sat U.S. Secretary for Political Affairs W. Averell Harriman, British Science Minister Lord Hailsham and Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At each man's elbow was a copy of the agreement, bound in red leather, initialed a few minutes earlier-WAH...
...Steps. The atmosphere was jovial. "Let us pretend we are discussing something," said AF for the benefit of photographers. Volunteered H: "I'll make my famous speech in Russian." He grinned but said nothing, since he speaks no Russian. Suddenly finding a microphone in front of his face, WAH declared: "The treaty is a very important step forward in many respects. It provides the possibility of further steps." Everyone seemed to be talking about steps. In his report to the people, President Kennedy used the same image (see THE NATION). The big, unanswered and for the present unanswerable question...