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...them 24 hours. From this she made soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...
...political (as distinguished from industrial) policy in Korea. Said one: "It looks as though the Russians are there to stay." In Pyongyang, the Soviet capital, street corners, schools and shops were literally plastered with banners proclaiming the virtues of the Soviet system, the Red Army, and "General" Kim II Sung, the Soviet puppet leader. At night Pyongyang streets rang with rifle shots...
...five he will take with him: He's Gone Away, an old North Carolina love song; Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, an Elizabethan ballad still sung in the Southern mountains; the square dancers' Old Joe Clark; the spiritual Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho; the cowboys' Old Chisholm Trail...
...teeth," a dusty collection of rare minerals, pet dormice, horses, French governesses, peasants and pheasants. Winter & summer, day began at 5 a.m., when Lord Alconleigh greeted the dawn with one his favorite records (Drake Is Sailing West, Lads, the "mad" scene from Lucia, or Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, sung by Galli-Curci), and strode on to the lawn cracking a Canadian stock whip. After breakfast, he gave his daughters a brief head start, then hunted them crosscountry with four bloodhounds...
Sing Out, Sweet Land! (Decca, 10 sides). A merry survey of 300 years of U.S. music from the late Broadway musical. Best of the 17 songs are Big Rock Candy Mountain, sung by Burl Ives, Casey Jones by Bibi Osterwald, and such treasures as Little Mohee and Frankie and Johnny. Performance: good...