Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PROKOFIEFF: LIEUTENANT KITE SUITE (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 6 sides). To cover up a Tsar's error, obsequious Russian courtiers invented a hypothetical army officer named Kije. The nonexistent lieutenant outlived his inventors, became the subject of a satirical Soviet film seen in Manhattan in 1934. Composer Prokofieff's music, written to accompany the film, is clever, brilliantly orchestrated. The Bostonians do a scintillating...
Last week, it appeared that Harper's was about to yield an inch. Beginning with the October issue, its deep orange cover is to be replaced with covers of varying hues. At the same time, it will begin a new department to be known as "One Man's Meat," to be written by a melancholy meat-eater, Elwyn Brooks White, famed among U. S. journalists as E. B. W. of The New Yorker. A year ago, "Andy" White retired as the chief author of The New Yorker's gently philosophical "Notes and Comment," left his Manhattan haunts...
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...analytical trail, Investigator Goodfellow extended his research to cover the program's dramatization of telepathy case histories. In one of them thought transference was said to have brought a California wife-murderer to justice by revealing to a neighbor that the dead woman had been buried in a woodshed. Last week, Dr. Goodfellow announced that again telepathy had had nothing to do with the case, cited California Supreme Court records, said that the grave had been found by a small boy who peeped through a knothole...
...program, AAA started Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. on a wheat-buying spree. FSCC will buy 100,000,000 bu. around prevailing prices (62?), dump it abroad for whatever it will bring. Estimated cost: $25,000,000. Although Chicago prices shot up 3? a bu. as short holders ran for cover, likely ultimate effect of the dumping program will be to depress already-depressed world prices...