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I was rather surprised by the inference TIME drew [March 18] from the fact that people no longer talk about the atomic bomb. TIME seemed to believe that people had accepted and forgotten it, and had gone their merry ways, changing neither their modes nor philosophies of life. . . .
Last Roundup. In San Diego, Dorothy McAndrews had a few drinks, went for a merry-go-round ride, hung on gamely but got thrown by her horse, was arrested.
To operetta-goers, the word for the Balkans had been "romantic'': in Marsovia, the Merry Widow's imaginary country, the people waltzed in boots and dainty slippers, drank plum brandy and intrigued their way through ballrooms and bedrooms. To diplomats, the word had been "obscure": ephemeral dynasties...
1) The original score for the overture to The Merry Widow, composed last winter by 76-year-old Franz Lehar. Lehar told Krueger, "After 40 years I finally got around to writing an overture."
Most interesting slant on the economic merry-go-round came from the Ofgant Chevrolet Company. Unable to share Truman's pessimism, Ofgant held that with the death of OPA, automobile production would rise and there was hope for increased sales soon.