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...post-VJ days when the Russians occupied northern Korea. The first puppet Pyongyang regime had been a coalition of two kinds of Korean comrades. One faction, led by scholarly Kim Tu Bong, had been trained in the Chinese Communists' stronghold in Yenan. The other, under truculent Kim Il Sung, had a Moscow background...
...faction favored by Russia soon got into the saddle. Korea became a Kremlin show-until Kim Il Sung's army was crushed last fall. Then (according to the Times), China-trained Kim Tu Bong called for peace; he was executed. The Chinese Communists, the story went on, waited for Russia's Korean satellite forces to disintegrate; then they marched in from Manchuria, reversed the Red rout without Russian tanks or other heavy materiel, kicked Kim Il Sung on to the sidelines, took over the show in Korea...
...British public had surrendered to the most unblushing piece of pseudo-nursery nonsense since 1939's Three Little Fishies. I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat, a baby-talk duet between a nasal, lisping little bird named Tweetie Pie and a gravel-voiced cat named Sylvester (both parts sung by Radio Actor Mel Blanc), had passed the quarter-million mark in record sales, stood second on the British hit parade...
Fists & Gasps. Visitor Fradier divides U.S. religion into the "hots" and the "lukewarms." The "lukewarm" services, he says, consist of "hymns sung to military marches composed by fierce Scots," or, for contrast, bucolic Bavarian waltzes. The form of the sermon, he says, never varies. "The [minister] leans on the pulpit and begins in a low voice, indistinct, sleepy. Slowly he becomes animated. He slips a hand in a pocket and tells an anecdote, two, three anecdotes, until the audience consents to smile a little. Then his tone warms up, the face of the orator turns purple, his voice becomes husky...
...never so much as sung Silent Night together before," explained mother Mary. But Columbia Records' Mitchell Miller was chewing his whiskers over the success of the Crosbys' hit for Decca; Mary and Larry, her son by her first marriage (to Texas Attorney Ben Hagman), were eager...