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...Mason reported, almost half of the U.S. net capital assets was controlled by just 113 corporations. There were 13 industries in which better than 60% of all manufacturing facilities were owned by three companies in each industry...
Vandeveer gave two main reasons for selling: 1) tax laws which "encourage small businessmen to take their earnings in capital gains instead of paying taxes on current income" ("you have to sell out"); 2) the problem of paying inheritance taxes. As the two partners owned almost all the corporation's stock, the shares had no established market value. A public sale, said Vandeveer, would have brought a price far below the company's worth as a going concern. Yet it was precisely Allied's value as a going concern which the Government would have used...
...Much Boomerang." At week's end, British critics found Goossens a man who "gives an impression of almost frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris' brassy Third Symphony and Goossens' own Oboe Concerto (written for and played by his brother, the great oboist Leon Goossens), they had to admit that "the results [of his efficiency] certainly [were] confirmed a hundredfold...
...Almost as soon as Guest Conductor Antal Dorati signaled for the first crashing ta-ta-ta-dah (from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5), then some muted lullaby music, the musicians began to look like small boys getting into a new game that was going to be fun. Most of the instruments got their chance to shine. Boomed the narrator, Nelson Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro...
Jolson Sings Again (Sidney Buchman; Columbia) is the predictable sequel to The Jolson Story, which three years ago became, to almost everybody's surprise, a smash boxoffice hit. The Jolson Story had wide repercussions in show business. It put the old Jolson songs of the '20s on the nation's jukeboxes. It gave Jolson himself, sixtyish and almost forgotten, new fame & fortune...