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...reason little "Mister Bart" sells more daily papers than anybody else in Britain (except Beaverbrook's Daily Express) is that his political acumen has made the independent Mirror the country's most sensitive barometer of the political weather. Sometimes it also helps to make the weather. A week before the 1945 election, the Mirror demanded that Britain "turn the Tories out." Then the paper supported Labor. Last July, Mister Bart spotted storm clouds ahead, for Labor and the Mirror cried: "Attlee must...
Something for Everybody. The shopgirls and workmen who comprise most of the Mirror's audience get more than politics for their British penny. Says Mister Bart: "There's something for nearly everybody." The somethings rarely include straight news. The accent is on short, spicy stories on crime, tragedy and sex, eye-catching headlines (HE DIED AS THEY DANCED UNDER THE STARS), lively photographs, a caustic daily column by "Cassandra" (William Connor), and comics, ranging from the Mirror's own stripteasing Jane (TIME, Aug. 25) to action-packed Buck Ryan...
Sponsored by Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy, Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, SANSS was organized late last summer by a group of science majors who felt their social training had been underemphasized...
...Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Like most of Bartók's experimental work, this is mostly hard going. Performance: good. Memorial Album (Vox, 4 sides). A collector's item: Bartók at the piano plays superbly some of his best Hungarian folk music. Recording: fair...
...Bartók: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Yehudi Menuhin, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Further proof that Bela Bartók, despite a fearsome reputation for arid dissonance, was actually writing fresh and melodic works in his last years. Even with passages that seem to be fiddling for fiddling's sake, Bartók's lone major work for violin should add to his tardy fame. Recording: excellent...