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Vigorous though the criticism was, the government made no move to change the measure. As one immediate result, Parents' Magazine announced that it would abandon its Canadian edition if the proposed tax goes into effect on schedule next January...
...Communist dramas. Climax! failed with its version of Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 novel. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a story of love and loss in World War I. Dorothy McGuire, looking at moments remarkably like Grace Kelly, flung herself into the role of the lovelorn girl with more abandon than heartbreak, and John Forsythe as her man had the air of a man looking desperately for the nearest exit...
...that carried with it the echoes of half-forgotten battles and the seeds of conflict yet to come. In Montgomery, Ala., where the Confederacy was born, obdurate Negroes persisted in their 3½-month-old boycott of a bus company that apparently was prepared to go bankrupt rather than abandon Jim Crow. In Sumner, Miss., an all-white jury decided that a white cotton-gin operator was not guilty of murder when he fired two charges of buckshot and one of squirrel shot into the body of a Negro gas-station attendant with whom he had an argument. In Washington...
...this basic moral and social conflict is felt most keenly in the Democratic Party. In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and other Northern states, at least 70% of the Negro vote in recent years has been Democratic and has been necessary for Democratic victory. Northern Democrats cannot abandon their pro-civil rights position, nor do their leaders wish...
...Metropolitan Opera got a new Carmen last week. She serpentined onstage in a dress of bare-shouldered abandon, and the rose in her hand glowed like the apple of Eden. She tilted her ink-black mane at a confident angle and poured out in seductive French: "When I'll give you my love? I'm sure I couldn't say; perhaps not at all-tomorrow I may." Her big voice had a dark, anthracite sheen, sometimes with more polish than depth, sometimes with not quite enough polish, but always firm and sometimes thrilling. By the time...