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When he first broached his idea, Texas businessmen scoffed at it as a socialistic scheme or a fly-by-night proposition in which unions would lose money. Cage insisted that it was just the reverse; it would give workers a firsthand education in the problems-and a share in the profits-of free enterprise. Now many top Dallas bankers are Cage's and I.C.T.'s biggest boosters...
...Philharmonia was founded in 1945 as a recording orchestra, has given no regular public concerts until this year's tour. But some of the musicians had played under the Maestro before, and knew his violent rehearsal temperament firsthand. The rest had heard legends of his ferocity. They awaited rehearsals with some apprehension...
...1930s, however, the prime pastime at Muriel's New York parties ceased to be music. Now, like many another patron of the modern arts, Muriel began to discover "the creative impulse . . . in the field of human relations," i.e., Communism. In 1934, she went to the U.S.S.R. "to see firsthand the Russians' new way of living." Three years later, she made a visit to embattled Loyalist Spain, where she discovered that when she looked at a Spanish worker or peasant, "we could both know that we spoke the universal language of truth...
...month after Pearl Harbor, Nixon went to work for the OPA in Washington. Says he: "In OPA I learned respect for the thousands of hard-working Government employees and an equal contempt for most of the political appointees at the top. I saw Government overlapping and Government empire-building firsthand...
...Designs her own dresses but has them made up by a "little woman around the corner," loves rose gardening (as does Eden), but dislikes sport, refuses to cook or keep house. "A person of decided views and individual tastes," said an Oxford don who knows her well. "Always a firsthand person." Women are apt to be reserved if not openly critical of her. Men, though, find her charming; she has had more than her share of suitors, but took none seriously until Eden...