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...Tanglewood in 1941. Later, Moseley spent five years (1950-55) as director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma. Sugar Baron Keiser, Harvard '27, won a Juilliard scholarship after graduation, studied piano under Ernest Hutcheson before he took over the family business (Cuban-American Sugar Co.). Keiser still gives concerts near his home in Connecticut. After ripping through his last cadenza with a touch of a smile on his face, Keiser came offstage last week saying, "What fun. What fun." Said Santa Bernstein: "I wish more musicians were as reliable...
...slowdown. Wage costs in foreign nations were also on the rise, narrowing the foreign advantage over the U.S. Now that the alarm has been raised, many a businessman is not only revising his ideas about world trade; he is also doing something about costs. Cleveland's National Acme Co. brought out a new cam-finishing machine that does the job in 20 sec., v. 1 min. 15 sec. "What's just as important," says Acme's President T. L. Strimple, "we're being extra good in courting business in Europe and Asia. We give customers service...
...Photocopies. The monumentally projected scope of the collected Papers is a publishing feat that would have delighted the man who signed himself "B. Franklin, Printer," and was as proud of his craft as of his country. The co-sponsors of the Papers, Yale University and the American Philosophical Society, aided by a grant from LIFE, expect the project to run to 40 volumes appearing over the next 15 years. For the past 5½ years, Editor Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of History at Yale, and his associate, Whitfield J. Bell Jr., have combed libraries and personal collections from Leningrad...
...Boston last week, famed Grocers S. S. Pierce & Co. were doing a brisk business in an item whose output is sharply limited: "Honegar," a fifty-fifty mixture of honey and apple-cider vinegar, compounded by Mrs. Catherine Perry, using frontier-housewife techniques, at Hartland Four Corners, Vt. And all over the U.S., booksellers were doing equally brisk business with an item in seemingly unlimited demand as well as supply: Folk Medicine, by D. C. Jarvis...
...surprised by Folk Medicine's success was 64-year-old Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison (TIME cover, May 24, 1954), a disciple of Dr. Jarvis' Honegar cult, who persuaded him to write the book and persuaded Holt to publish it-no trick, since Murchison controls Henry Holt & Co...