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...Finnegan, who resigned under fire, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000 for misconduct in office (TIME, Aug. 6, et...
...local reporting, San Francisco Chronicle's George de Carvalho, who was born in Hong Kong and knows San Francisco's Chinatown intimately. He was the first to expose the Chinese Communist extortion racket (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). After Carvalho reported that Chinese-Americans were being bilked for ransom to get their relatives out of jail in Red China, federal investigators went after the racket...
Barcelona's leading La Vanguardia Española praised the company's stars, Maria Tallchief, Nora Kaye, et al., and Choreographer Balanchine, who "does not sacrifice technical virtuosity for theatrical effects." But it concluded that, on the whole, the company's "interpretive rigidity is somewhat disappointing...
Blue Tango (Leroy Anderson; Decca). A sort of poor man's Third Man Theme, set to jolting Latin rhythm. This version by the composer triumphs over those by Xavier Cugat, Guy Lombardo, et...
...manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, once the scourge of the National League, but more recently its most promising also-ran. Long gone are the rowdy old days of the Cardinals' famed "Gashouse Gang"-Pepper Martin, Frankie Frisch, Leo Durocher, Dizzy Dean, et al. But the fiercely loyal St. Louis fans, who learned to look on Stanky with a sort of affectionate loathing when he played on rival clubs, are cheered when Stanky says: "I have always been the Gashouse type...