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...record $20.1 billion in October. Department-store executives from Manhattan to Los Angeles, who used to wait decently until after Thanksgiving before putting up the Christmas decorations and playing scratchy recorded carols, were shamelessly early this year, and report that holiday shopping is off to an unseasonably brisk start. With projections based on income, credit and savings statistics, Sears, Roebuck Vice President Arthur M. Wood expects that retail sales will rise 3% or more in the first half...
Conductor Mravinsky favors brisk, martial tempos, even in romantic music, and audiences not accustomed to the beat often find it unsettling. In the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, Mravinsky whips through the tragic last movement at such a pace that to one critic he seemed to seize it "by the scruff of its neck with the brisk air of an English nanny determined to have no scenes in the nursery." Even so, the Leningrad's carefully detailed exposition of the Symphony moved a crowd in Washington's Constitution Hall to a standing ovation last week; its performance of Shostakovich...
Shotguns & Beans. There were some Nervous Nelly reactions in the U.S. The stock market, hardly a symbol of U.S. backbone, dropped sharply next day. In Tampa, sporting-goods stores reported a run on shotguns and rifles. In Dallas, a store reported brisk sales" Of an emergency ration pack of biscuits, malted-milk tablets, chocolate, pemmican and canned water. In Los Angeles, a Civil Defense warning that retail stores would be closed for five days in the event of war or a national emergency sent housewives stampeding into the supermarkets. In one, hand-to-hand combat broke out over the last...
...just nine plays quarterback Bill King took his Indians past the Harvard 20, with tricky handoffs, and smashing cuts through the Crimson line by Tom Spangenberg. With a brisk wind going against him, King tried only one pass, which failed. The Big Green quarterback ran into a suddenly tough Harvard line on the 17, however, forcing Dartmouth to try for a field goal. Bill Wellstead's kick from 25 yards out just cleared the posts and the Indians moved into a 3-0 lead...
...staging, not yet wholly settled, is smooth enough and brisk enough; and the sets, gaudy and numerous, are the inspired work of Will Steven Armstrong...