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Boston disk jockey "Woo Woo" Ginsburg has been playing the record frequently on his night show (WMEX 1510), calling the dance a future hit. "It's the first record I've come across where the singer is worse than I am," he comments every so often...
...qualify for aid without having to join military alliances. Of his predecessors. New York Businessman Ellsworth Bunker and Kentucky's U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper were exceptionally able and well liked, while Chester Bowles, though popular at the time, is now remembered as having tried too hard to woo the Indians. Galbraith has a wider field of effectiveness and is closer to Nehru than either of his immediate predecessors, for the simple reason, as New Delhi sees it, that "they have more to talk about...
...held out longest was Rodriguez Echaverria. He ordered out hired thugs and government sound trucks to try to woo the mob and break the strike. Then Rodriguez Echaverria stiffly rejected as ''inadmissible" a compromise plan that Puppet Balaguer quietly proposed to Dr. Viriato Fiallo, head of the opposition U.C.N., under which Balaguer would resign in favor of a Swiss-style Council of State...
Shostakovich was clearly determined to woo a large audience, and there was never much doubt that he would succeed. With his political credentials in apple-pie order, he was rewarded by the usually cautious critics with an instantaneous rave. Said Izuestia: "Just as today we feel an involuntary envy for the contemporaries of Beethoven, Paganini and Tchaikovsky, so will future generations envy us who first heard the Twelfth Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich, the greatest composer of the 20th century...
...following night new Director Gustav Rudolf Sellner was not so lucky. He bowed in with avant-garde Composer Giselher Klebe's new opera, Alkmene, an academic, humorless scoring of the ribald Amphitryon legend, in which that incorrigible old satyr Jupiter turns himself into Amphitryon's double to woo Amphitryon's handsome wife...