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...aviation. While the current long-range procurement policy is a vast improvement over previous policy, airmen still remember what happened after World War II. North American, for example, went from a profit of $14 million in 1945 to a $12 million operating loss in 1947. Then it had to crank up to high speed again to produce F-86 Sabre jets for Korea...
Elsewhere in the series. Concerto for Piano-Four Hands, by Philadelphia's Teacher-Composer Vincent Persichetti, starts off in a tortured, plodding style, goes on to crank out some astonishing, dervish-like activity. Lilacs and Portals, by one of the "bad boys" of the '20s, Carl Ruggles (played by the Juilliard String Orchestra), are handsome but dated experiments in sound combinations. Since Columbia can hardly expect to show a profit on this series anyway, it seems a shame it does not grit its worthy teeth and bring out at least a few samples of really controversial music...
...bassoons rollick, sleeps it off and then calls for his dog (no "Woof"); 4) The Albany Night Boat, mostly moonlight and summer, and a five-piece Dixieland band on deck; 5) New York, a one-minute explosion in which the percussionists and their public-service assistants beat, squeeze, crank, .crash and blow vigorously...
...when the high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business, you will be astonished . . . how fast they will change their tune." At first, Hartford's targets shrugged him off as a crank with money. Newspaper editorials and letters-to-the-editors, plus arty-party chitchat, have shown in the past month that Hartford does make sense to thousands of people. But his view that art should follow only a middle road-a three-lane, 40-miles-an-hour parkway between photographic realism...
...nice, safe society type, but Jane (the Athena of the title) is something else again. She lives with grandma (Evelyn Varden) and grandpa (Louis Calhern) on a Southern California hilltop. Grandma, a buxom old beldam, wears a flowing white burnoose. Grandpa is a gay old (78) caloric crank...