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Even the most astute of Manhattan musical managers prophesied that Impresario Monath's funereally earnest concert-giving would end in a bust. But Manhattan concertgoers bought out 97% of the first season's tickets before she had even presented her first concert. Today, the New Friends still operate without the help of wealthy patrons, still qualify as one of the very few entirely self-supporting high-brow musical institutions...
...thousand students daily under the vaulted arches of her nave. Hardly a meal passed without some outburst of excitement. Bloody fights among the colored waiters, Class wars, and demonstrations against the constant stream of sightseers who thronged the galleries to "watch the animals eat" served to hallow the bust-lined walls. Many were the wild tales that passed about of stray dogs which disappeared into her kitchens never again to see the light...
...against inflation has taken a turn for the worse. In Washington men knew that more than one price ceiling was cracking, that a vicious retail boom is on. Federal Reserve authorities gloomed that unless the Treasury can put its finances in order the U.S. will face a real bust...
...outwit the farm bloc. The way: 1) let farmers sell their loan wheat for what it will fetch in the market; 2) maintain such stringent retail ceilings on flour, for example, that the price of wheat will have to yield. These tricks neatly bypassed the parity-or-bust provisions farm-bloc Senators had carefully woven into the anti-inflation...
...Freedom Sing (music & lyrics mostly by Harold Rome; produced by the Youth Theater) brought to Broadway a bunch of youngsters who for several years have contrived some amiable side-street shindigs. Their grown-up party is a bust: their high spirits produce silliness; their satire goes sour; their amateurism sticks out like a sore thumb. A topical revue, Let Freedom Sing purveys standing jokes (the WAACs, Washington overcrowding, hoarding, snooty refugees) without giving them a single new twist. Composer Rome's tunes have none of the lilt he put into Pins and Needles and Sing Out the News...