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...large eastern financial centres. Efficient operation . . . requires an intimate . . . knowledge of the property. . . . A holding company having dozens of scattered properties in as many widely separated parts of the country cannot enow the management problems as in-imately as a holding company whose interest is confined to a single compact geographic (not to say industrial) area...
...fairly ooze Sibelius music. At Symphony Hall Friday and Saturday, Koussy is playing, all on one program, the Second, Sixth, and Seventh Symphonies. This is a great opportunity to go and hear typical works from Sibelius's early and mature periods, to observe how he develops in craftsmanship, how compact and close-textured, for example, is the Seventh Symphony alongside the diffuse Second, and how much more purified, without loss of strength, are the themes of the sixth compared to those of the earlier symphony. Saturday night, again, Toscanini is doing (in addition to the Second Symphony) two of Sibelius...
November 11 is the anniversary of two great events in U. S. history-the Armistice, signed at Compiegne in 1918, and the Mayflower Compact, signed at sea off Provincetown...
...events of the last 15 months have made the Armistice seem less important and less worthy of a national holiday. So last week Dr. Francis Carr Stifler, editorial secretary of the American Bible Society, suggested that it would be far more appropriate to celebrate the anniversary of the Mayflower Compact this Monday...
...cornerstone on which stand the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights," he said. "Equally, it is a very clear affirmation of the place of God in American life." Signed by 41 adult males aboard the Mayflower, the Compact begins roundly "In the name of God, Amen." Its pious, Bible-inspired signers then put it on record that "We . . . having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith ... a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia do ... solemnly and mutually in the presence of God . . . covenant and combine ourselves together...