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...producer or director or writer or someone was not satisfied with Boston's justly famous articulation and had to substitute his own peculiar brand of midwestern accent is a mystery, as is the intent of one of the same gentlemen in allowing a girl from Boston in any decade to sway, skirtless, on a Bowery stage. Cambridge, at least, is not, and was never, like this. Durante is a mystery of sorts, too-but only in that it's a wonder he remains as funny as he does. As a matter of fact, the more you think about Durante...
...Bulotti: "It sounds ridiculous to have bandleaders commenting on world affairs, politics and the Russian situation.") He also ordered "all yelling and whistling at the opening and the closing" of Mutual broadcasts to be stopped pronto. "It [makes] the ballroom . . . sound like a noisy saloon filled with bawdy characters intent on drowning out the music...
...Senate, with its usual unhurried intent to assert itself as the "senior" body, took a different approach. OPA was to die a lingering death, with subsidies continued until May, 1947, and with no automatic abolishment of controls until a special three-man board had reviewed the problem for each specific item. But then the upper chamber lent an ear to the lobbies. New England's dairy groups, the Midwest meat-producers, and the Senators from the oil states put in a specific ban against price ceilings on any of their products. There was still a ceiling, but the most important...
...last, a working foreign policy. It was not a perfect policy; it had not yet been translated into success. It was a policy formed in response to events, in defensive opposition to the dark self-interest of Russia. It still groped for specific solutions. But in outline and intent it was there...
Brazil's Communists, with a year of legal existence to celebrate, were out to celebrate it in downtown Rio. The Dutra Government, alarmed by mounting strikes and mass demonstrations (TIME, May 27), was just as intent on putting Rio's 150,000 unruly partisans in their place. Rio's police chief, somber José Pereira Lira, ordered them to meet in the remote beachside suburb of Ipanema. The Communists refused, scattered thousands of handbills calling all proletarians to downtown Carioca Square...