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...Best Sir: Here's one reader who jumped for joy when he read of the English education of Chicago Newsman Ernie Hill's stepson Jona than prise to [TIME, learn that Nov. 2]. "six of It the comes as best"- no six sur wal lops with the headmaster's cane - work wonders with a boy too long exposed to progressive education in U.S. schools...
...Farmington, Conn. Hungarian-born son of a Jewish cantor, he first studied law in Vienna eventually joined a barnstorming Wagnerian troupe, and after one season in the U.S., was signed up by the Met. Best-known for his memorable Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and Wotan in Die Walüre, Baritone Schorr shut himself up for hours before singing a new role, to master every histrionic detail...
...acting hastily: "Wal air, I once knew a feller bought up a couple of Jersey cows and turned 'em out to pasture. Came back a year later and found no calves had been borned. Turned out he acted kinda hasty and hadn't got a bull...
...Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...
Hundreds of newspapers repeated this fascinating Trueism; Frank Edwards,Wal-ter Winchell, Lowell Thomas and other radio commentators trumpeted it over the air. Denials from Washington had little effect, though an Air Force spokesman stated: "Air Force studies of 'flying saucers' lend no support to the view that they may come from another planet...