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...standoff on the second point meant little, because if mass inoculations had been highly effective, the fact would have been apparent. After studying the report, one authority had a crisp suggestion: forget about gamma globulin for polio and turn it over to the states for use against measles and hepatitis...
Also notable: an alternately brusque and limpid Sonata for Piano Four Hands by Harold Shapero, a crisp woodwind Quartet in C by Arthur Berger, both of Brandeis University; a series of gay brevities called Music for a Farce by Author-Composer Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles. All were recorded under the com posers' personal supervision, a sometimes questionable practice that here results in some good performances...
...nine finance ministers of the British Commonwealth gathered to talk about their troubles under Australia's summer sun, Queen Elizabeth appointed Britain's cool, crisp Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler to be a Companion of Honor.* It was one way of dramatizing the fact that Rab Butler was in undisputed charge for Britain at the Sydney conference...
...Mirror's publisher, Virgil M. Pink-ley, ex-U.P. general manager for Europe, knew what to do about that. He turned its front page around and set out aggressively to give the Mirror a crisp, sensational style ("All news stories are written too long, including those in the Mirror"). Los Angeles, said Pinkley, "needs a fighting newspaper [and] the Mirror is anyone's fist in a good fight." The paper picked its fights carefully, more often to woo new readers than for any lofty civic motives. Mirrormen breezily campaigned against everything from "black-market baby rackets...
...somber Symphony No. 7. Each gave the conductor plenty of opportunity to show his capabilities, and his reading of the long, difficult Bruckner work gave the audience some special excitement. Wrote one critic of Van Beinum's style: "Refreshingly free from excessive gesticulations . . . His cues are crisp and clear, his beat firm, and his authority is absolute. His conducting is intensely individual. He knows what he wants, and gets...