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Behind the closed doors of the House Military Affairs Committee room, the Big Three of the U.S. Army hammered urgently at a well-worn fact: until Congress makes up its mind, U.S. military men are hog-tied...
...whole. Thus Russia might eventually desert Tito on Trieste if she can get what she wants in Iran, while her demand for a sole trusteeship of Tripoli may be a bargainer for complete freedom of the Dardanelles. Meanwhile the Russian delegates can only parrot well-known Moscow claims in well-worn formulas. Unless the deadlock is soon., broken from above, the Big Four's draft treaties for Europe will not be ready in time for the 21-power Paris Peace Conference...
Very few people agree with Koussevitzky's choice of tempi in Beethoven, but almost no one can deny that they are always honest and effective. It is often sound to get a new impression of a well-worn piece; when the work is one as great as the "Eroica," it becomes essential. If the approach is different, it is studied; if it makes the work sound different than it does with other conductors, there is always a great chance that, perhaps, Beethoven wanted it to sound just that...
Auto Suggestion. In Manhattan, three well-worn police patrol wagons - known in the trade as "pie wagons" - were sold for pie wagons...
...desirable Tuesday 9-9:30 p.m. time. Corwin corrailed a crew of Hollywood professionals (Groucho Marx, Keenan Wynn, Sylvia Sidney, Ronald Colman) and labored mightily on his favorite stock in trade: the supremacy of the common man. But this time all he brought forth were tired platitudes, well-worn dramatic tricks, cacophonic sound effects. Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all big-time evening shows. For the present, CBS plans to use Corwin only sparingly, on one-shot special assignments...