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...Nod Coward's dialogue for this turn-of-the-century French farce is broad more often than bright, and Cyril Ritchard's direction is often as agitated as it is agile. The cast works hard for its laughs, but it does get them. Tammy Grimes chirps and wiggles saucily, although she suggests a visiting British cutup rather than a Parisian cocotte. Cecil Beaton's settings are like a brilliant tropical aquarium with a lavish flora of swirling, colorful gowns and hats...
...first time in five years the Crimson sextet faces the strong possibility of no invitation to the post-season NCAA playoffs to be held three weeks hence at Troy, N.Y. A more difficult question is who will get the nod, for this winter's Eastern intercollegiate hockey has been the wackiest in recent years...
Secretary Stimson gingerly put his left hand in the jar, took the first capsule he touched, handed it to Mr. Roosevelt. The President, old stager that he was, glanced at the newsreel and radio men, got their nod before he intoned: "The first number is one-five-eight." Registration serial number 158, held by some 6175 registrants throughout the U.S., thus became Draft Order...
...years. As Joe Martin moved up to Speaker, Halleck overrode Taft regulars to become majority leader, ramrodded through bills such as the Taft-Hartley Act and tax-cutting measures. Promised -he says-the vice presidential nomination in 1948. Halleck took Indiana votes to Tom Dewey only to see Dewey nod to California's liberal Governor Earl Warren. Halleck has never lost a chance to tell Dewey that the 1948 vote would have gone Republican had the second man on the ticket, no matter what his leaning, been a real fighter for the party...
...Minor and the Concerto No. 7 in G Minor. As always, the Tureck style was unhurried, her touch firm and glistering, her phrasing spacious. Her cues to the orchestra were kept to a minimum: a somewhat stiff sweep of the arms to launch a movement, followed by a nod of her head or even the lift of an eyebrow to cue individual sections. Her piano itself set the tempo, which Tureck accentuated by bobbing slightly on the piano bench...