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Though Boston's new ice show is not spectacular, it has a good stock of the principal necessities of this brand of entertainment--graceful, unrestrained skating, colorful chorus numbers, and plenty of unsubtle comedy. Unless you have a strong prejudice against watching people fool around on ice, an evening at the Center Theater will be pleasant, if uneventful...
Most of the flu was type A, ordinarily mild. But this year's A-brand was exceptionally virulent; the death rate from flu and its complications was higher than last year's. There were other peculiarities: the epidemic had struck four times as hard in Texas (81,860 cases) as anywhere else, had followed a comparatively flu-less winter (the season's total-239,637 cases-was less than half that in the 1945-46 epidemic...
...Cronies. In many respects this is the same hard-driving regimen Harry Truman had staked out for himself when he first entered the White House. But it now revolves around a brand-new operating routine. The old days of government by cronies are gone, and so are most of the cronies (Jake Vardaman, Ed McKim, John Caskie Collet, George Allen, et al.). The President now has a new, tightly knit staff and a new administrative procedure which makes full use of his Cabinet...
Moscow's contingent (from the Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kirghizia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) got in some propaganda punches for Russia's brand of imperialism. Said the Armenian delegate: "My people were backward until we became a part of the U.S.S.R.; after this event our period of hardship ended forever." The Russian section had a formula for every problem: try Communism...
...signal flags in some 200 brand new Park-O-Meters will begin curbing erst-while traffic violators on the local scene Monday morning at 8 o'clock, following the installation of meterheads today...