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...music dealers this week are featuring a box with an emerald green cover, a faceless figure seated before a Decca microphone, and the word Bing. Spread over the five LPs in the package (price: $27.50) are 89 Crosby renditions with spoken interludes by the crooner himself. Most of the songs are original versions selected from the 2,000-odd sides he recorded in two decades...
...relations are to the running of a business. But management has been slow to learn the importance of good relations with another big group in the company: the stockholders. Sometimes the lesson has been taught the hard way. The managements of such big companies as New York Central Railroad, Decca Records and American Woolen Co., which never went out of their way to woo stockholders, suddenly found themselves this year fighting for survival in bitter proxy wars. In some cases the awakening came too late. In many others management had to take desperate steps, declare extra dividends and stock splits...
...Decca Records, which has been fighting a group of rebel stockholders who say that management salaries are too high and hit records too few, finally won its proxy war by a 6-to-1 margin. Decca's President Milton Rackmil said that the man behind all the trouble was Draft Dodger Serge Rubinstein (TIME, Mar. 5, 1947), who had paid for the opposition's proxy solicitors and twice visited Decca trying to make a deal that would give him a voice in company policy...
Other notable new records: all five of Beethoven's adult Piano Concertos, played by Wilhelm Kempff and the Berlin Philharmonic under Paul van Kempen (Decca, 3 LPs); all of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas, played by Jascha Heifetz (Victor 5 LPs); Ernest Bloch's String Quartet No. 2, played by the Musical Arts Quartet (Vanguard...
Harvard Square merchants believe the price war will not continue and will probably end by March 1. Neither Decca, Capitol, nor London record prices have been reduced...