Word: concerning
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...After a spell with Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co., the Government during World War II and Eastern Air Lines, he became treasurer and later financial vice president of Mathieson Chemical. ¶Hans A. Vogelstein, 53, was named president of the American Metal Co., Ltd., U.S. refining and smelting concern with holdings in Canada, Mexico and Africa, annual sales of more than $600 million. He succeeds Walter Hochschild, 56, son of Berthold Hochschild, one of the company's founders. Walter, president since 1950, becomes chairman of the board. Vogelstein, who has been vice president since 1953, faces the immediate task...
This is all very peculiar in a writer who is making stories from ideas, a writer who got an M.A. from Harvard in '29, a writer whose work is essentially didactic. To find a man whose primary purpose is not only to amuse but to educate, whose primary concern is not art but people, and who despite all that, can hold a reader spell-bound, this is enough to recommend any book...
Faulkner just could not be content with narrating facts or telling a fabulous story. Yet he lacks the energy within himself and the material in the Snopeses to concern himself in this book with "truth...
...sometimes verging upon ferocity. His conception of this music is in the grand manner, with robust tempos and high-toned fortissimos. If an occasional passage was not executed with perfect technical ease, this did not destroy the total effect, not interrupt the continuity, which seems to be Gross' first concern. It is not surprising that such a spirited and musical pianist should hum as well as Serkin...
...policy reasons for refusing to let U.S. newsmen into Red China in the past year, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles retreated a step; he is willing, he said last week, to ease the ban if the "newsgathering community" will help him work out the administrative details. His main concern is no longer to keep reporters out of China (TIME, Feb. 18) but to devise "a passport policy which will permit responsible newsgathering and at the same time not permit a general influx of Americans into Communist China...