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Progressive. For President, wealthy San Francisco Lawyer Vincent Hallinan, who recently spent five months in jail for contempt of court during the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges; for Vice President, Mrs. Charlotta Bass, 62-year-old former publisher of a California Negro newspaper. Candidate Hallinan, whose followers favor immediate disarmament and "cooperation" with Russia, last week asked Harry Truman for the same intelligence briefing given Adlai Stevenson and offered Dwight Eisenhower. He got no answer. Hallinan's predecessor as Progressive candidate in 1948 was Henry A. Wallace, who has repudiated the party as a Communist front...
Church of God Bible. For President, Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson, general overseer of the Church of God; for Vice President, Bishop Willie I. Bass, North Carolina overseer of the church. Tomlinson and Bass, who favor righteousness and peace, hope to get on the ballot in 30 states, but admit that New York looks like the only sure bet. They plan to stage a five-day peace conference this month at Childersburg, Ala., the feature of which will be the beating of swords into plowshares. From a blacksmith, Bishop Tomlinson recently took lessons in sword-into-plowshare-beating and has been...
...Albany, Governor Tom Dewey announced that he was air-expressing several hundred smallmouth bass fingerlings to Emperor Boo Dai of Viet Nam, Indo-China. On his journey to the far Pacific last year, the governor explained, he found that the Emperor had never fished for bass, so Dewey had promised to send enough to stock some native streams...
...difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even the radicals. One of the more conservative was reminded of the story of the man who took his first bath: "I can't say that I liked it, but I think...
George London: Dramatic Scenes from Russian and French Operas (with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, conducted by Kurt Adler and Jean Morel; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Up & coming George London uses his darkly magnificent bass-baritone to best advantage in the melodramatic scene from Prince Igor, sits rather heavily on the more lyrical ones. Other operas (all little known) from which London sings selections: Rubinstein's The Demon, Paladilhe's Patrie, Massenet's Don Quichotte...