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Mossman, a balding, limpid-eyed arranger who can bat out an "adaptation" in a day, has done 400 of them. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he has turned out some Gershwinesque compositions of his own. His New York Concerto is to be played by the Boston "Pops" Orchestra this summer. He has also won a fellowship to study composition and conducting at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Center...
...biggest plant, Tennessee Eastman, a majority of the workmen voted for no union at all. At the smallest, Monsanto Chemical Co., the A.F.L. came out on top. At the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals factory, where the C.I.O. had trailed the A.F.L. in the first election, it now won by a molecule (25 votes out of 3,811 cast...
...C.I.O. got the hardest blow to the mazard. At the big Tennessee Eastman Corporation the C.I.O. was out of the race altogether; there the run-off decision would be between no-union and the second-place A.F.L. At Carbide & Carbon and Monsanto Chemical, C.I.O. got snowed under by the A.F.L., but will have a second chance to fight it out again...
Married. Dr. Howard Hanson, 49, Pulitzer Prizewinning conductor-composer (Symphony No. 4, Opus 34, Merry Mount), director of the Eastman School of Music, longtime cymbal-dasher for U.S. composers; and Margaret Elizabeth Nelson, 31, Pittsburgh Junior Leaguer; both for the first time; at Chautauqua...
Wind & Rain. To make sure it was not jumping at sensational conclusions, Eastman analyzed the strawboard. Chemists cut out bits of it which fogged X-ray film, and burned them. The ashes were strongly radioactive, shooting out beta rays (streams of electrons). They gave out no alpha rays (helium nuclei), thus proving that they were not the naturally radioactive elements: radium, uranium, or thorium. The only remaining possibility was that, the guilty particles came from the atomic bomb, were carried to the Middle West by the wind, and washed down by the rain. Six months after the explosion, they were...