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...Kountz's first patients for hormone treatment was a woman of 78. She was bearded, diabetic and grouchy; she often used her wooden leg as a club when a doctor approached her. She was put on estrogens. After three months, he recalls, "she became one of the sweetest persons in the hospital. She began to menstruate regularly, her beard went away, and she went home...
Perhaps the sweetest of Old Balkan Hand Tito's satisfactions was the vengeance he was taking on the men who had spoken loudest in denunciation of him during his 1948 quarrel with Stalin. Satellite leaders who once denounced him have been shoved aside, or tremble in their jobs. Men who went to their deaths accused of trafficking with him have had their reputations posthumously "rehabilitated." The Cominform which expelled him has been dissolved. Molotov has resigned. All these things, Tito indicated, make for a good start, but he still" has some names on his list. He has a score...
Jimmy Rushing Sings the Blues (Vanguard). Blues shouter for Count Basic's great band at the turn of the '40s. Rushing has a couple of men from the Basic gang in the band that backs him. He may not have the sweetest voice in the land, but his cries are uttered with a mastery of inflection that causes lumpy throats...
While washing down Southern fried chicken with orange juice in Charlotte, N.C., torrid Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, a blower of wild-valved cadenzas that could never be confused with the strains of Bandleader Guy ("the sweetest music this side of Heaven") Lombardo, double-crossed his own feverish admirers. Between gulps, Satchmo satchmoed: "Lombardo's the greatest. He is relaxin'. He got a good style, and he ain't tryin' to fool nobody. The new cats around now, they ain't provin' nothin...
...this casual thriller, Dana Andrews, Gent Tierney and Judith Anderson are the other points of interest. Andrews proves he's a hard-bitten detective type by chewing gum, and Miss Tierney struggles with valor to live up to her role as the world's sweetest girl. Miss Anderson, being an almost hallowed institution of American drama, is beyond criticism, since everything she does is more or less perfect...