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...Jordan L. Golding--Judy Goldman (Wisconsin) in mind that these fellows are more exposed to bribery and corruption than anyone else employed in this kind of administration. The interpreter is a figure as important in military and internal administration, and often as venal, as the dragoman in the days of the old Turk in Constantinople...
Speed and accuracy have been of the essence, and with good reason. As Robert Jordan, Hemingway's FWTBT hero, reminded himself, "They trusted you on the language principally. They trusted you on understanding the language completely and speaking it idiomatically...
Everywhere the long arm of "Oklahoma" reaches in and dictates the style. One of Rodgers' best songs, "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" sounds a good deal like "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and several others like "You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan" and "What's the Use of Wondrin'?" though nowhere nearly so tuneful as their predecessors have a definite touch of "Oklahoma" about them...
WINDS, BLOW GENTLY - Ronald Kirkbridge- Fell ($2.50). A family of Pennsylvania Quakers move to South Carolina, where Father Jordan's neighbors grin at his "book farming," scowl at the high wages he pays his Negroes. Gay, charming, occasionally sexy tale of farm life with social overtones...
...proved that there is no U.S. color line when it comes to the old Negro hymns (Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child, etc.). For the past year, service men and their chaplains have bombarded the Rev. Mr. Settle with requests to bring "Wings Over Jordan" overseas. Good-humored preacher-director Settle is convinced that U.S. servicemen are turning to religion more & more, and he offers as proof the two songs most popular with overseas fans of his broadcasts: He'll Understand and Say Well Done and Just a Closer Walk With Thee...