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...President's report contained a concluding paragraph much more significant than the one newsmen made into headlines. It said: "The attainment of the long-range security and economic objectives of the United States and the other United Nations is a task of the greatest importance if we are not to lose the victory. . . . We shall seek ... to achieve settlements . . . which will best attain these objectives...
...Laughing Waltz," a difficult but novel arrangement of the Die Fledermaus motif. A lyric, "Who Knows," was the only outstanding original song and is destined most likely to fall into the clutches of the radio. The second act, getting off to a boring start and failing to attain the standards set by the first, featured ballet routines well danced by Harold Lang and Babs Heath. In a stirring finale Mr. Rigaud gave a ridiculous performance of Strauss conducting a 1000 piece orchestra, a chorus of 20,000 voices, and 150 clattering firemen, which had been assembled for a Peace Jubilee...
...ought to meet somewhere . . . and find that each faces the other's light." Asiatics, concludes Editor Arthur E. Christy, understand the secret of human happiness somewhat better than the U.S. corporation which recently advertised: "Buddha, who was born a prince, gave up his name, succession, and heritage to attain serenity. But we do not need to give up the world; we have only to see a life-insurance agent...
Everything in radio, Fred Allen once said, is as fleeting as a butterfly's cough. One exception he might have made is the work of Norman Corwin, Columbia's boy wonder, whose radio scripts draw down ecstatic fan mail, are frequently rebroadcast, even attain the comparative immortality of book publication (13 by Corwin; More by Corwin). Last week Corwin did it again. His full-hour V-E day program, On a Note of Triumph, had a Sunday repeat performance, and in book form, without too much ballyhoo, was selling so fast that Publishers Simon & Schuster rushed...
...Germans! .. [and] Germans themselves have no future." Nor did Hitler look deeply into the final cataclysmic scene of his beloved Götterdämmerung, for which Wagner himself had written the program note: "The will that wanted to shape an entire world according to its wish can finally attain nothing more satisfactory than . . . annihilation...