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Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (Verve LP). After 22 years of making records for Decca-plus a few before even Decca latched onto him-Bing Crosby steps out with a handful of oldies on a new label, proves himself virtually indestructible. It is only when he tries to swing too high that he begins to. sound...
...Wedgwood: "the perfect nurse had married the perfect patient." Among their many common bonds was backgammon. Darwin tabulated the results of all their games, so that towards the end of his life he was able to write to a friend: "She, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games, whilst I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2,795 games...
...feeling that, after all, the situation in Europe is pretty hopeless." As things stood, the Secretary warned, it would be impossible for the U.S. government to give Europe the pledge that it once offered to EDC: the pledge to keep its "fair share" of troops on the Continent, "whilst that area is threatened...
...Whilst Cricket its lovers inflame...
...Whilst appreciating the honor TIME [Aug. 31] bestowed in featuring the teaching of the British Israel World Federation . . . I would like to correct the impression made by the use of the word "cult." As the Oxford Dictionary defines this as a "system of religious worship," the federation pleads "not guilty," for it is an interdenominational organization; it has no church status ... It is an organization ... of all the recognized Christian denominations . . . We believe in the Second Coming and the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth [and] in the continuity throughout history of the whole House of Israel from whom...