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When long-haired Rebel Chieftain Ba Cut lost his head to a government guillotine a year ago (TIME, July 23, 1956), officialdom in Saigon thought that the threat of rebellions by the country's fanatic, oddball religious groups was ended at last...
Cohan's own words and music and a show-wise script by Sam and Bella (Kiss Me, Kate) Spewack pleasantly evoked the furbelows and gimcracks of a theatrical era in which Cohan wrote shows called Little Johnny Jones and Little Nelly Kelly, and singers stretched "baby" to "ba-ay-ay-ay-bee." Rooney evoked Rooney. But if the tumultuous Rooney was not the debonair Cohan, he was still a sliver off the same shank, and great fun to watch as an outrageously brash song-and-dance man taking a reluctant theater by storm. At 36, Rooney is thin...
...fact that his astrologers had declared the moment auspicious (11:15 a.m., March 1), nobody knew just why U Nu had chosen to take power again. But when U Nu gave the word, the Burmese Parliament without a dissenting vote accepted the resignation of interim Premier U Ba Swe and named U Nu in his place...
Last week, as U Nu returned to take up the burden of office, former Premier U Ba Swe breathed a sigh of relief. He was free at last to spend more time on the ponies and shooting pool near the bar at the Union of Burma Club...
...Communists had picked up 40 seats, and U Nu sees no excuse for Communists. He asked for one year to reorganize and revitalize the league. Last week the Burmese government announced that U Nu was resuming his job forthwith-six months ahead of schedule. Interim Premier U Ba Swe will become one of three deputy Premiers...