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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where a new tone scale should take its place?" Or was it still possible "to discover new expressions and new harmonies" inside the old scale? In short, had musical composition become "a problem of vocabulary or a problem of style?" Last week, after mailing questionnaires to French composers to find out, Le Figaro had some answers...
Opening day was a nerve-racker for some. High-school students in Hazleton, Pa. went on strike when they learned that the school board had voted to abolish football. "No sports-no school," cried their picket signs. "Township unfair to students." Worcester, Mass, was trying to find a teacher of Lithuanian to satisfy the parents who wanted the language taught. Otherwise, Worcester was all set; for the first time since the war, the city had enough teachers. San Francisco and Denver reported the same...
...models, a sensational, Lauren Bacallish redhead named Kathryn Cassidy, 23, and a sultry Maryland beauty named Jean Patchet, 22. About 75 models make between $8,000 and $10,000 at rates up to $25 an hour. The rest charge from $5 to $15 an hour and often do not find enough work to make ends meet. Lisa Fonssagrives is alone in charging $40 an hour...
...looks as if matters may well get worse as Author Feikema is more thoroughly cribbed and confined. At the end of The Primitive, Thurs headed East. Part Two will find him and Author Feikema in the toils of the city slickers, 700 miles farther from home...
...early twenties . . . to hire the recording secretary of the Classical High School debating society-a man whose mordant irony reminded his auditors of Disraeli and Brann the Iconoclast, although he had scarcely turned 16 -to sift your ashes and beat your carpets at 30? an hour. Even I find it almost too fantastic to credit, and, mind you, I was the recording secretary...