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...Italian restaurants and bars of Manhattan's Fifties, the sound of minestrone was all but lost in the excited conversational buzz. The buzz was about a curvaceous blonde named Dorothy Kirsten. When she had appeared in a revival of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the City Center Opera, the Italian operatic grapevine registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric...
...year ago Britain's Trades Union Congress, representing 6,500,000 workers, brought a storm about its ears by declaring that the Nazis, not the German people, should be held responsible for Germany's guilt. Last week, after a year of reconsideration and buzz-bombs, the T.U.C. changed its mind. Meeting in annual session, it resolved, by 5,056,000 votes to 1,350,000, that the German people must also be treated as guilty...
...White House announced Franklin Roosevelt's next speaking date: Oct. 21, before the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Association, at a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The announcement quieted a furious buzz of rumors...
London's Time and Tide reported a delayed buzz-bomb story. In London a robomb hit a house in which an old 'man was taking a bath. Nothing was left but debris, so there did not seem to be much use searching for the body. But rescue squads dug in, presently dug out the old man, dazed but otherwise unhurt, and still sitting in the bathtub. Said he: "I don't know how it happened. I just pulled out the plug and the house blew...
...Wallace clumped ahead with his peculiar personal campaign, wherein he travels from town to town ringing citizens' doorbells, tells them "I'm Henry Wallace," and then sits down for a little parlor discussion. (This unheralded approach made some housewives nervous ; they never knew but what the next buzz on the doorbell might be the Vice President. What to serve him? Not Scotch, of course. Tomato juice?) In Manhattan's Harlem 4,000 Negroes attended a big political rally at which the VP had been advertised as the main speaker, only to find that his speech...