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...grandnephew of famed General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, who made history by his fighting in the Thirty Years' War, which ruined Europe a good bit more than World War II to date. When he was eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Toscanini for seven years...
Inflation control must hurt. Requiring a brake on demand, it necessitates a reduction of almost fifteen billions in the consumers' income, and only a program which siphons away the money that can bid up prices without increasing are taxation consumption can be effective. The methods are taxation and compulsory saving: taxation through a graduated downward extension of the income tax, compulsory saving through forced investment in public bonds. A jobs for the experts, such a program is primarily for economic control, not money raising. Effectively pursued it may save the nation, anything less will disrupt our entire economy...
...Japanese entered the Bay in force, the British cried out for U.S. naval help. Perhaps the U.S. had given that help without sending a ship into the Bay. The Pacific Fleet, based on Pearl Harbor, but continuously fanning out toward Japan's home waters, is always a brake on the Japanese Navy. If the U.S. Fleet tightened the brake a little, with a feint toward Jap waters, the Japanese may have had to pull their warships from the Bay of Bengal in a hurry...
Music. In Chicago, John and Xenia Cage, tired of the old musical sounds, gave a concert with a beer bottle, a barrel, flower pots, an iron pipe, brake drums, thunder sheets, rattles, dinnerbells and buzzers. Mr. Cage played the piano with his elbows...
...plan would be voluntary; employers would contribute the whole fund; and the Treasury would get the money now, when it needs it. The plan also included a neat inflation brake: although there would be no deduction from current wages, 75% of all wage increases would go into the fund, to be paid when the certificates are cashed after the war. Mr. Ferguson disclaimed knowledge of J. M. Keynes's wage-deferment plan in England, to which his project bore a striking resemblance...