Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safecrackers hung around for a week, can openers in their pockets, "carrying books and trying to look like graduate students." Finally, late one night they eluded the Yard Cop ("a frosty character who didn't even pack a rod"), jimmied open a cellar window, went in and blew the safe, escaping undetected with the loot--"some $100,000 worth...
...they have furthered the cause of contemporary music. But the sometimes pathetically small audiences, the vanishing of the Music Club Chorus which flourished last year, and the relative inactivity of the Chamber Orchestra are warnings for the future. There is no longer such an active group of veteran musicians around Harvard, and if the clubs are to maintain the high standards which have been set up to now, they will need a more efficient and more perservering management to encourage other groups to cooperate with them in getting good music heard. There is and will be a market for music...
...grandest of course, but Astaire's grimaces when he sees a circle of shoes dancing on the floor, are enough to make the show worth seeing. Aside from a couple of Gershwin revivals, the music is no great shakes, but who cares about music when Fred Astaire is capering around the screen...
...Power Biggs slid onto his bench at the organ. The soloists, including the Metropolitan Opera's bass, Mack Harrell, took their seats in front. In decorous silence-there is no applause in Packer Chapel-Welsh-born Conductor Ifor Jones strode to the podium. After a darting look around, he lifted his hands to begin the great double-chorused Passion According to St. Matthew that Johann Sebastian Bach had composed 220 years ago as the 44-year-old cantor of St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig...
...last few years, and the business as a whole appears to be on the upgrade. Most of them are three-or four-man affairs. The half-dozen or so outfits in the field each print anywhere from two to a dozen books a year. Press runs usually hover around 5,000. Yet such midget firms as Prime Press in Philadelphia, Fantasy Press in Reading, Pa. and Shasta Press in Chicago eke out profits from their small printings, for two reasons: 1) they keep advertising and other overhead costs to a minimum, and 2) they can count on regular patronage from...