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...twelve years, Soprano Dorothy Kirsten has traveled from torch singing in "a joint in New Jersey" to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Not content with this success story, she signed up last fall to sing popular songs with Frank Sinatra on Light-Up Time (weekdays, 7 p.m. E.D.T., NBC). Last week, with Sinatra suffering from a sore throat, Dorothy Kirsten took over as M.C. of the show. "I'm a long-hair with shorthair moments," she explains. "People forget that I learned how to swing before I learned the classics...
Although President Seymour, a Bones man, has expressed his liking for a hands-off administration policy, other university higher-ups as well as many secret society men outside Bones have been concerned about the problem. When a dozen Torch and Aurelian Honor Society juniors drew up a statement last week deploring present Tap Day procedure and urging an inter-society council to work out a solution, one administration official sent copies of the statement to powerful society alumni representatives...
...Spain, an unprecedented wave of religious fervor swept a country in which life, year by year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with...
...action by naval-ground-&-air forces against the elusive Viet Minh (Communist-led) guerrillas. Two of the legionnaires had been wounded by a booby trap. Behind them, over banyan and bamboo groves, rose the smoke of a straw-hut village they had put to the torch. With them the legionnaires brought a small batch of women and children captives...
Tough-Guy Bogart still conveys emotion by baring his teeth in a grimace that gentler folks reserve for the moment after biting into a wormy apple. As the girl for whom he carries a torch, Eleanor Parker conveys no emotion at all. Much of the dialogue they speak does not deserve to travel at the speed of sound. To its credit, Chain Lightning uses expert photographic effects to wring plenty of excitement out of its flying sequences, suggests that a good movie is waiting to be made about jet aviation...