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...natives seemed lost at only one point-in the more advanced sections of Mann's The Evolution of Jazz, which traces jazz development from the hottest New Orleans to the coolest of the cool. The Africans decidedly did not dig modern jazz. Recalls one critic: "It was almost like watching a class that had mastered the trick of counting in cowrie shells being whisked by rapid stages through the intricacies of higher mathematics to Einstein's theory of relativity...
After the Paar walkout that was heard round the world (TIME, Feb. 22), things looked bad for a while. General David Sarnoff, jeered the Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald, had ordered "NBC's First Territorial Lawyers' Brigade to surround Paar's house and dig in. All leaves of the Fourth Airborne Public Relations Division were canceled, and every vice president under the age of 70 was mobilized and armed with statements." Then Jack finally decided to take a vacation in Hawaii and Hong Kong-but for some reason, he went by way of Florida. Somehow...
...white miners begged for one more rescue attempt. A self-styled seer, Petrus Johannes Kleinhans, 29, had told them that he had a vision in which he saw the precise position of seven black and three white men, still alive. When he pointed to the place to dig, mine officials, who had insisted all along that there was no hope, said it was 1,100 ft. away from the nearest tunnel. Seer Kleinhans then had a second vision in which he saw all ten dying at exactly 9:15 Friday morning. Though rush rescue attempts had stopped by that time...
...deeply, and for what cause, should the press dig into a man's past? In a free press there can be no hard and fast answer to such a question. But last week there seemed to be a clear case of a great newspaper having gone too far, and for the wrong reasons...
...reach Cape Dorset will tell Houston: "I brought a block for a print along. It's no good, of course. I'm ashamed of it. As a matter of fact, I think it fell off the sled." While he is pro testing, his wife will go out, dig the block out from under some skins at the bottom of the sled...