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...reads his script rapidly and casually with his fingertips, ad-libs with the evening's guest. When Paul taps him three times on the shoulder, he knows he has three minutes to go ; two taps mean two minutes, one tap the windup...
...impressive list and, in time, TIME'S editors will probably tap all of it in their weekly process of verifying the news TIME prints...
Josephine Baker, expatriate American whose bouncy scorchdancing made her the rich brown toast of Paris musicomedy for years, got ready for her third marriage. Husband No. I had been a Negro tap dancer, No. 2 a wealthy French manufacturer. No. 3-to-be: Jo Bouillon, top-ranking white French jazz bandsman...
Three Came Home doesn't try to tap tear ducts or beg reader sympathy. Mrs. Keith's story is full of suffering but singularly free of resentment. In a prefatory note that reads like a considered epilogue she rises above personal bitterness: "The Japanese in this book are as war made them, not as God did, and the same is true of the rest of us. We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you spiritually...
Hauptfuhrer, second-string end last fall and captain-elect of the 1947-48 basketball team, will use the springy legs that netted him so many tap-ins during the winter season to snag points for the Crimson in the high jump...