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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gravediggers-Catholics almost to a man-promptly charged that the cardinal's methods were "high-handed, arbitrary, and suggestive of the tactics used by anti-union employers ten years ago." The union also claimed that Cardinal Spellman and the trustees of St. Patrick's had "sought to break the union" by appealing to the workers as individuals in two letters and a telegram. They passed a resolution condemning "the union-busting tactics of any employer, including the Catholic Church when it acts as an employer." To dispose of the Communist implication, they cut loose from the international...
...years ago, pretty Contralto Kathleen Ferrier had made a name for herself at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival -and the name was Orfeo. Last week, after her first U.S. performance of Gluck's 187-year-old, seldom heard opera Orfeo ed Euridice, Manhattan operagoers understood...
When Russian-born Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky made San Francisco sit up and take notice a year ago with his blazing performance of Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), critics and music lovers wondered if he could keep up the pace. Fellow violinists said that Tossy had made the difficult Bartok concerto his own, but that playing the classic concertos might be a different story. Since then Tossy has proved that Bartok is just one well-done chapter in his concert book...
When Burlington Mills Corp. (Bur-Mil), largest U.S. weaver of rayon goods, slashed its prices 10% to 25% a fortnight ago, its 52-year-old Chairman J. (for James) Spencer Love made a calculated gamble. He was betting that the price of rayon fiber, which Burlington has to buy to weave its fabrics, would soon come down enough to make up the difference...
After isolating 3,400 strains from 600 samples of soil, Dr. Duggar found one in 1945 that looked promising. Because it was a golden yellow color, it was called aureomycin. More than two years of careful testing in the laboratory followed. About a year ago, aureomycin was first used to treat human beings. Results were good. By last week aureomycin had taken its place as a standard medicine...