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Vienna's magnificent old Opera House on the Ring was still recuperating from its wartime bombing and fire wounds; its reconstruction might take till 1953. But even so, Vienna last week opened its 1950-51 opera season with a wallop...
...since 1934: the charge of Democratic softness toward Communists. Familiar with such tactics as they were, from previous encounters in the ring, the President and his aides were plainly worried about how to counter the punches this year. The trials of Hiss, Fuchs and Coplon gave the Republicans more wallop than they had before. The headline-catching feints of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy (see below), even if he hadn't landed any hard blows, were not making it any easier. Five speech-writing aides were put to work preparing the pattern of the President's countertactics...
...olive-colored world that Kay Sage confines to canvas is wide, wet, uninhabited and untroubled. Her private cloudland, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, might depress some people but would hardly disturb anybody. Surrealist though her paintings were, they had no more wallop than a wisp of smoke...
...settling for weirdness without wallop, Painter Sage parted the twin gods of modern art. Her current reputation as one of the country's most talented dream-scapists proved it could be done...
After a disappointing start against Pennsylvania, the Indians came back to wallop Holy Cross and Colgate, primarily on the strength of Clayton's passing and some well executed trap plays and off tackle slants. Dartmouth's great weapon against Harvard last year, however, was its outside game...