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Publishers often complain that the South writes more books than it buys. All over the U. S., static small-town life is the frustration and inspiration of bright young talents. But the South's small towns inspire the most feverish talents of all. Led by William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Southerners write with brilliant intensity, but their subject matter runs to horror-sexual, psychological or economic...
...Germanic Museum to a spirited accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta. The concerto itself is a delightful one, and the whole album as successful a combination of Biggs, Victor, and Handel, as has yet appeared....Anyone who is revolted, as I am, by Stokowski's lurid transcriptions and feverish performances of Bach may be glad to hear that there is still someone floating around who has the taste to transcribe early music and not emerge with something different from the original. Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C., has made a firstrate transcription...
Even more modern omens were lacking : no bands of feverish citizens swarmed around newsstands to buy papers whose damp headlines hourly leaped higher and blacker; the radio was dull with soap operas and swing versions of Old Black Joe. On the surface, there was little tension...
Something more crucial than Bogdan Filoff's stomach ulcers was discussed in those feverish sessions. That something could only have been one thing: whether or not to grant Germany troop transit through Bulgaria or at least use of air bases in Bulgaria, so that the big end of the Rome-Berlin Axis could get the little end out of its Grecian swivet. The Bulgars' decision might make no immediate difference whatsoever: the Germans could undoubtedly penetrate Bulgaria whether the Bulgars wished it or not. But the ramifications of the decision might have heavy bearing on the outcome...
When the Siboney ran into a storm, most of the passengers got sick and went below. Someone missed Axel and started a feverish hunt for him. He was found sitting in one of the lifeboats, dangling his legs over the side and whooping every time the ship rolled...