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...heads off to achieve it. You'd never know the effort spent, however, by merely listening to their records. Their secret is relaxation. Neither betrays the slightest tension. From start to finish their records are a lesson to the Harry James school of swing and strain. For intimacy and warmth, no one can beat them. Put on a record of Mildred's, sit down, and listen. There is no phonograph, no needle, no turning record, but music that you hear inside, not with your cars...
...that. Not so, however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his own right, welded together into the kind of unit you find in a good crew or ball team. Other quartets have the same precision, and occasionally the same warmth of tone, but the Budapest people have that extra something that brings the music to life and gives it symphonic dimensions...
Wendell Willkie's last days in China were, in every way, the climax of his world-circling trip. They were a climax in the warmth that had everywhere been shown him as a man and as a symbol of the U.S. And he returned this lavish Oriental affection with the most statesmanlike and moving appeal for global understanding and effort, in war and in peace, that had yet come from an Occidental leader...
...well that her black hair turned snow white in a few years. He made her sell her jewels, negligees, robes, put her in a cheap apartment, would not buy enough fuel to heat it. Juliette stayed in bed to keep warm. She said to Hugo: "If you seek warmth in this room you will have to seek it at the bottom of my heart...
...five o'clock, the troops eat a breakfast which may consist of French toast, Karo syrup, sausages and coffee. The world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines are all brown as leather. Men who are not manning guns usually finish their work of building, rebuilding, camouflaging and drilling...