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...four songs of Mr. Cutler, who is now a graduate student of composition at Brandeis, were finished two years ago and sound a bit adolescent, a bit melodramatic. They center around the ambitious subject of death and, from their excessive use of tremolos in the strings punctuated by over-orchestrated fortissimo chords, one gathers that Mr. Cutler's concept of death is merely a scary mood, not unlike the effect of the most terrifying sections of a horror movie. The pseudo-meaningful verses by that overrated American poet, Kenneth Patchen, do not help the listener in his attempt to grasp...
...Charging like an affronted rhino, Gene Fullmer, 28, roughhoused flustered Challenger Spider Webb, 28, around the ring in Logan, Utah, to win a unanimous decision, keeping the middleweight championship of the National Boxing Association (recognized by all states but New York and Massachusetts, which still hold Sugar Ray Robinson champion...
...general demand for funds. It was partly due to the depressing effects of the steel strike and industry's uncertainty about investing heavily in inventory before a settlement is reached. But the Federal Reserve Board also eased money to take care of the usual extra demands around Christmas by permitting member banks to count a percentage of their vault cash as reserves, thus in effect adding some $1.4 billion in lending power...
...N.A.M.'s new president was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1897, emigrated to the U.S. in 1910. Completing grammar school in Holyoke, Mass., Bannow went to work as an apprentice patternmaker in 1911 at 6½? an hour ("I was grossly underpaid"). In 1919 he shipped around the world for a year as a coal stoker on a freighter ("I had to get that phase out of my system"). At 30, he bought Bridgeport Pattern and Model Works with "$80 and a $3,000 loan,'1 changed its name to Bridgeport Machines, Inc., and went to work manufacturing...
...world's sixth or seventh industrial power. But, said Dulles, "in the short space of 30 years since 1928, despite the ravages of four war years and several years of reconstruction, the Soviet Union has become second." Today, Dulles estimated, Russia's gross national product is around 45% of the U.S.'s G.N.P...