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Around here it is the custom to gloat for long paragraphs over the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Of all the major orchestras in the country, only this one has a great place in the hearts of the local populace; only this one is a center of aesthetic endeavour. But once it has been said that Koussevitzky's group is the finest symphony orchestra in the world, that...
...official Washington's estimate, Harold Burton was an excellent appointment. He had impressed the Senate, as few first-termers ever have, by his ability and judicial temperament. (The Senate, as is its custom with its own members, gave his appointment immediate, unanimous confirmation...
...tied, boyish Frank Sinatra gave his listeners just what they had tuned in for: he mooned his way through My Melancholy Baby and I Fall in Love Too Easily. Then, as is his custom, the swoonmaster turned schoolmaster to lecture his charges about a "very, very important subject known as tolerance." The subject seemed to have quite a lot to do with Frankie, too. He gave his bobbysox listeners an earnest preview of a film short he had just made, and of the kind of thing they can expect from him every few weeks in his Old Gold radio show...
...Federal Reserve Board this week promised the public its first taste in over four years of the old American custom of installment buying. "Regulation W" (wartime consumer credit control) will be relaxed enough to remove all restrictions for the installment purchase of building and home repair materials. If the materials are to be had, the average man can once more build all the new houses or buy all the new bathrooms he can afford, "on time...
...book will not be so elaborate as preceding Albums," Blanchard continued, "since many of the activities had closed down and no pictures could be taken of them. But the book will still maintain pre-war appearance, and it will still be a custom...