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First, Hermione Gingold. As she will tell you herself soon after the show begins, it's pronounced "Hermy-oh-nee." She is a performer with a flamboyant earthy style that takes you by storm. She flounces about like a whirlwind, lifts her skirts slyly, twists her string of pearls, tosses off innuendoes, and grimaces. When she has good material, and luckily that is often, she is howlingly funny. For example, her discussion and demonstration of some obscure comp o s e r's "Grasshopper's Dance" is a genuine delight...
...predecessors, ante bellum, less enchanted with the world and with ourselves, with an easy cynicism which passes for understanding. We know a sinecure when we see one, and also a Stopping Stone. And we know that four years of Dartmouth can mean both. We're more interested in Security (nee Getting-Rich) than public service or someone else's minimum subsistence. We've watched the College turn into a prep-school for Business Courses and Executive Training, rather than an academic end-in-itself; and none of us cries out. One wonders about a "selective system" that will produce...
...history of the Western allies' intervention in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution is shrilled on the radio-"Our people will never forget [these] bloody crimes!" Also World War I is being refought in the press: the U S has been Russia's enemy "invariably'' nee 1917, and it plotted to "bleed Russia white during 1941-45-"The U.S. is as implacable in its enmity of the Soviet Union as Hitlerite Germany...
Born. To George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, 27, music critic, nephew of King George VI, and the Countess of Harewood (nee Stein), 23, Austrian-born pianist: their first child, a son; in London. Name: undecided. Title: Viscount Lascelles. Weight: 7 lbs. 4 oz. Position in line of succession to the British throne: 13th...
Born. To Count Flemming of Rosenberg, 27, son of Prince Axel of Denmark, and Countess Ruth of Rosenberg (nee Nielsen), 25, Copenhagen businessman's daughter for whom he last year renounced the title of Prince and the right of succession to the throne: their first children, twin sons, the first twins in the history of the Danish royal family; in Copenhagen. Names: Valdemar and Birger...