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...whizzed past the stands with amazing maneuverability. They looked like boys' paper darts, but they flew so fast that they had to land with parachute drags. Many British experts believe that airplanes like them will dominate the future. Britain's Minister of Supply, George R. Strauss (who lets all British aircraft contracts), calls the delta-wings "maybe the most important new factor in aeronautics...
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...prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington wrote "the most distinguished popular music since Johann Strauss...
...pontoon stage on a quiet inlet of the Rhine, bleachers ashore for 3,000 spectators and snack bars plastered with Coca-Cola signs. It promotes itself as "The City of the Operetta Festival." The single operetta to be staged all this summer: a jazzed-up version of Johann Strauss the Younger's A Thousand and One Nights...
...basic idea seems to be that it doesn't matter what the boys do to Strauss so long as they keep it lively. The rotating stage is decked out with a gay jumble of pagodas and minarets, Arab palaces and Venetian gondola landings. Costumes flash across the stage with colorful irrelevance: sultans look like Dalai Lamas, girls in Balkan skirts wiggle through Egyptian belly dances, men gotten up as Chinese coolies chant Viennese versions of Moslem music...