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Of the three works on the program, the Mozart Serenade No 9 in D. K. 320 (-"Posthorn") received probably the most successful performance. The serenade demands a good deal of orchestral versatility. Its seven alternately bustling and doleful movements are among Mozart's most intricately scored. To its great credit...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The Bach Society | 12/13/1960 | See Source »

ONE of the richest men the in the U.S. is Allan Price Kirby, 68, whose personal fortune is estimated at nearly $300 million. He is chairman, president and controlling stockholder of Alleghany Corp., the vast holding company whose assets include control of the New York Central and the $3 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Proxy Fighter by Proxy | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

As U.S. businessmen last week anxiously looked for signs of a fall upsurge, there were few sights to cheer them. Stock buyers took such a doleful view that the Dow-Jones industrial average suffered an 8.58-point drop to 612.27-its sharpest one-day decline in more than six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Searching for Signs | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

The Second Symphony is less radical than many of Ives's works. A passionate, lyrical piece, it contains unmistakable echoes of the great German romantics-Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner-but positioned neatly after their Olympian periods are Ives's variations on Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radical from Connecticut | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

I was tremendously pleased to see the picture of my father, Representative Howard W. Smith of Va., on the cover of TIME [Feb. 2]. However, I am weary of the same old adjectives used to describe this wonderful, complex man. "Dour," "doleful," "lanky," "bushy-browed," "wintry-eyed," and sometimes worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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