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During September, nearly $300 million in U.S. cash moved across the border for investment in Canada. Much of it was smart money from speculators who thought they saw a sure thing. Canada's trade was brisk, her U.S. dollar reserves mounting to a record high. The Canadian dollar was obviously worth more than its quoted price of 90? U.S., and revaluation seemed certain. If it should be hiked to its old par value of 100 U.S. cents, an investor would stand to reap a quick 10% profit...
...times have been changing in the misty capital. Spanish custom has been modified by the influence of the amiable French and the brisk North Americans. Now Colombian Essayist Camilo Pardo Umana has suggested a revised Code of Mourning...
Into a huge tent near Gunnison, Colo, last week strode brisk, blue-eyed "Colonel" Arthur Weimer Thompson, dean of U.S. cattle auctioneers. In his clarion voice he addressed his audience of 1,500: "You men are the backbone of America. Burn all the cities down-you farmers and ranchers will live. Tear up the farms and ranches-that's the end for everybody...
...music convictions into practice. Experimenting with a studio orchestra, he concocted what he calls "middle music," played programs mixing dehydrated classics ("I think it should be permissible to cut those great works down to the purely melodic passages") and expertly inflated popular selections. Working on the brisk premise that the lengthy development of themes found in the classics "is intended for musicians and confuses a lot of other people," Kostelanetz was able to hack Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture from its usual running time of 16 minutes to less than five...
...obscure but dedicated specialized publishing houses (TIME, May 30, 1949). Last year Publisher Doubleday, with one eye on flying saucers and the other on an unexplored trade-book market, plunged into science fiction, quickly issued five titles (Lancelot Biggs is the sixth). With sales and reprint prospects looking brisk, U.S. readers can brace themselves for more long rides into space...