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...vocal cords seemed to be in the best of form, the record doesn't register. Arrangers of all-star recording sessions encounter innumerable difficulties, especially when they use original tunes. This time the synthetically blue lyric and melody of Mr. Feather's just weren't enough of a catalyst for King Louie. The other side, featuring the Armstrong trumpet, is a little better although the arrangement and the theme with which Mr. Feather saw fit to provide the musicians would have been more in place on a score of background music for one of Walt Disney's short animated cartoons...
With Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Astronomy, as its principle catalyst, Boston's "Salute to the Atomic Age" flared up in the Hotel Bradford ballroom last night when Martin Deutsch, professor at M.I.T. exploded a few nuclei to add a realistic touch to the proceedings. Featured on the program besides Deutsch and Shapley were Rear Admiral H.G. Bowen, Rev. Edward Conway, and Louis Ridenour, professor at M.I.T...
...Piece of Lace. New York discovered Danny Kaye the same night he discovered himself. A song written by Sylvia was the catalyst. Called Stanislavsky, it kidded the great entrepreneur of the Moscow Art Theater, whose "method," according to Sylvia's lyric, consisted of teaching drama students...
...methods of realism are only a tool. In blending the horrible with the ludicrous, alcohol becomes the catalyst. Drink encourages characters endowed with normal human cowardice to plunge gaily into the ugliest and most dangerous situations and carry them off with unexpected turns of drunken ingenuity. The puzzle is no longer a chief attraction. The principal characters are all detectives and all Watsons...
Conclusion: modern war's effect on man's religious leanings is that of catalyst rather than converter...