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...Senate Armed Services subcommittee, tracking down ammunition shortages (TIME, March 16 et seg.), rendered a blistering judgment last week against the Truman Administration. A majority report, signed by Republicans Margaret Chase Smith, Robert C. Hendrickson, John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Harry Byrd, agreed that...
Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Byrd added up some new figures from the Administration last week and hustled out a press release. In March, Byrd reported, the Federal Government lopped 20,135 civilian employees off its payroll, the biggest cut in any month since the Korean war began. Most (17,859) of those dropped were in the Department of Defense, which at the end of March still had more civilian employees (1,303,534) than all other Government departments combined. Total federal civilian employment after the 20,135 had departed...
...concert sponsored by the Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs in the Fogg Museum Courtyard last Thursday included selections written over a three-and-a-half century span. Yet the programming was not in the least incongruous. Quite to the contrary; the two works most separated in time, Byrd's Mass for Four Voices (c. 1588) and Stravinsky's Octet for Wind Instruments (1923), both demanded the same sort of intense and wholly purified approach on the part of the listener. The harmonic and melodic devices of better-known musical epochs were not present to induce those stereotyped emotional reactions...
...Byrd Mass was followed by two suites for strings and continue, one by the 17th century English composer John Jenkins and the other by Francois Couperin. The pleasing, simply-constructed movements of the Jenkins were given a graceful rendition by Anne Gombosi, violin; August Wenzinger, a visiting lecturer from Switzerland; Stephen McGhee, viola da gamba and John Dvison, harpsichord. But the Couperin is quite a notch above the Jenkins musically, and Mr. Wenzinger's virtuoso performance further augmented the excellent impression it made. Because of the elaborate ornamental conventions of the period in which it was written, a great part...
Finally, as a bonus, MacArthur offered Harry Byrd his own updated formula for getting a decision in Korea: "We still possess the potential to destroy Red China's flimsy industrial base and sever her tenuous supply lines from the Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern war . . . and threaten the Soviet's present hold upon Asia. A warning of action of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed. It would dread risking the eventuality of a Red China debacle, and such...