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...Bach lived, Miss Boron maintains, he intended to have 14 fugues each preceded by a canon "in the manner of meditations or commentary on each Station"--with canon 1 at the unison, canon 2 at the second, etc. (a scheme Bach did in fact employ in the Goldberg Variations). But of the four canons Bach did write (omitted in this performance), one is by augmentation in contrary motion, which already upsets her numerical scheme...
Once a year the Newhouses fly to Europe, where Mitzi, in her new capacity as wife of the proprietor of Conde Nast, makes the rounds of the fashion houses and takes a certain satisfaction in the fact that the arbiters of style now employ models in her size (which is 3). Within three weeks her husband is bored, and they go home...
...local Negroes have much knowledge of political tactics or ideas, and what's more every local leader is deeply dependant upon the white community for economic security. Right after the sit-ins the colored community did manage to organize a boycott of all stores in town which do not employ Negroes. The only hitch was that after a week or so people grew weary of shopping in Wilmington and informally dissolved the boycott, having gained nothing...
...Globe (circ. 322,543) has long jousted with its broadcasting competitors, boasting that its editorial staff of 121 includes more newsmen than all of Missouri's radio and television stations to gether employ. But in its excitement over the new campaign's success, the Globe showed that it had not yet lost all faith in the air. Eager to tell St. Louis of the great things in store for newspaper readers, the Globe signed up for 266 radio and TV spots to shout its happy news...
...British press is as censored as most censored presses, though in an arbitrary and indeterminate way. We employ on the Mirror and [Sunday] Pictorial three fulltime and eleven part-time barristers to avoid printing libels, breaches of parliamentary privilege, breaches of the Official Secrets Acts, or committing contempt of court. Over the years, the area of operation of these newspaper hazards has been steadily widened until criticism of any kind is becoming impossibly risky...