Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's music is systematically organized-from the mightiest flames of Russian creative inspiration down to the lowliest tuba spit valve. A Soviet bureau called Glavnoe Musicalno Pravelenya (Glavmus for short) spends over 6,000,000 rubles a year ($1,200,000) keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces...
Marital Prospects. In Lafayette, Ind., Richard C. Steinmetz of the Chicago Fire Prevention Bureau said that unhappy wives often set their houses afire. In Atlantic City, Dr. Clifford R. Adams, Pennsylvania State College marriage counselor, announced that morality will hit bottom by 1955 and four out of every ten marriages will end in divorce...
...these messages are in connection with our newsgathering-to steer our correspondents along channels that will help our editors bring you a clearer, more complete, better connected story of the week's news. But add them all together-and I think you'll see why our News Bureau's bill for outgoing messages alone was $40,000 last year...
...Hollywood last week seemed to have a rendezvous with the U.S. Government. In Manhattan the Department of Justice suit against the major studios, to divorce producers from control of theaters, was in its third week. On the West Coast, the Bureau of Internal Revenue was sniffing at the heels of the independent producers, who seemed to be getting too much money through a loophole in the Revenue Code. Variety predicted that the outcome might well be no suits to recover more than $30,000,000 in back taxes...
...Salt Lake City, the Crime Prevention Bureau reported that its col lection of toy pistols (for the amusement of lost children) had disappeared...