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...political action chairman will refuse to vote for state ADA endorsement of Foster Furcolo, Democratic candidate for Senator, at the forthcoming Massachusetts ADA political committee meeting...
...Frank Guarrera, Robert Shaw Chorale, NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor, 3 LPs). Verdi's last opera (composed when he was 79) and his towering masterpiece. Old age robbed Verdi of none of his genius, and at times the Falstaff melodies have all the melting tenderness of Ada or Trovatore. The orchestra trills and chortles in a mischievous manner most of the time, and the Maestro sees to it that every note is dagger-sharp. Although the voices are not all of surpassing beauty, there is enough standout singing to add up to a unique recording...
...Miss Ada Shockley, 43, who teaches the first grade in the College Elementary School of the Central Washington College of Education in Ellensburg, Wash. A shy, quiet woman, Miss Shockley started her career in a country school at $50 a month. She toted ten gallons of water to school each day, made new, child-sized furniture, decorated the windows with bright cretonne to make school look "homey." Since then, she has spent her life arranging parties for her little charges, leading them through song and play until they are ready for books. Dedicated to the proposition that adjustment...
Investigation of the charges seemed likely to involve dozens of politicians and endanger G.O.P. ticket chances in November. Hoffman's daughter Ada called on her father's friends (she said that he had at least 300,000 of them) for contributions to make up the missing funds, but the response was not overwhelming. "He could never say no," she said sorrowfully. "That was his trouble...
Cherington, who withdrew from ADA several years ago after a conflict within the organization, reiterated his belief that the group's present leadership is following too doctrinaire a course for the good of the liberal cause. "Such a position is as bad as that of the National Association of Manufacturers in that it assumes a complete budget of revealed truth," be said...