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...source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm. Opening with a jingly, jabbery railroad-car recitative of traveling salesmen, the show soon catapults Actor Preston into River City. There he first catches the town's eye with a kind of stylish evangelical pitch called Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making...
Head Line. In Seoul, Korea, Oh Chook Sung, 37, walked casually into the police station, gathered up all the hats in the detective bureau, was questioned on his way out, triumphantly explained that he was "just checking to see if the detectives were on their toes...
Secret Color. Buddhism, imported from China, flourished in the arts, creating prototypes of figures in gold and bronze that were later imitated by Japanese craftsmen. But it was in ceramics that Korea led the Oriental world. Even Chinese connoisseurs of the Sung dynasty praised the artistry and craft of Korean potters of the Koryo dynasty (A.D. 918-1392), proclaiming: "The secret color of Koryo is first under Heaven...
...DEATH IN THE FAMILY, by James Agee. A hymn to life, sung in the story of a man's death and the complex of feelings that course through the hearts and minds of his family. The novel's greatest strength is in its delicacy, the most unusual effects gained from a loving knowledge of the tragedy that underlies the usual...
TRISH DWELLEY is the 17-year-old blonde youngster with the warm, blonde voice whose appearance as an unknown schoolgirl on Jack Paar's Tonight TV show in October developed a bolognoid scent when someone remembered that she had sung a year and a half ago with an outfit called the Dream Weavers. While Paar clutched his wounds. Trish grabbed a recording contract with Decca. She might hit the big time, with the help of a cute nickname (short for Patricia), a fine nose for publicity and a sentimental, "There's-a-tree-in-the-meadow" kind...