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Hodge told his men: "We are midwives at the rebirth of a nation." He applied the forceps with characteristic vigor. At Kwangju, Hodge, with his old cavalryman's gait, rolled up to a bearded elder, beamed: "You know me? Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when...
Flying in the face of rationality, always an in-season Congressional pastime, is currently being pursued with vigor by the House Appropriations Committee. Falling in with Washington's present tendency to elevate "economy" into an end in itself, the subcommittee has in effect eliminated the broadcasts through which America has been telling the world her side of the postwar struggle for position...
...performances, a group of Hollywood's best studio musicians organized their own symphony orchestra. Last week, their Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets a single side in the album with a galloping Fete Populaire. Both performances are excellent...
Grand Slam. In London, William Deven slammed his wife's bedroom door with such vigor that the three-story facade of the house fell off, crashed to the ground...
This is still a good country. A month in the Britain outside London is enough to convince anybody that there is a lot of vigor and promise left in the people who live the real life of this island and who do its real work. The alien traveler returns to London with a sad feeling that all these confident, energetic, likable Britons whom he has just met don't know what has hit them. But their strength has always been that they never know when they are down,* and maybe that matters more than anything else...