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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (the London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides). Chicagoans and other record buyers can hear what they missed a fortnight ago when the U.S. Government halted Conductor Krips at Ellis Island (TIME, July 31). Here, in the familiar "Unfinished," he displays a fine sense of pulse and dynamics, achieves a startling clarity of texture. Recording: excellent...
...frontier, at first reacted to the invasion of South Korea with: "It might have been us." The swift and determined U.S. stand had brought them much encouragement, but later U.S. defeats brought doubt and fear again. Andre Laguerre, head of TIME'S Paris bureau, arrived in Saigon last fortnight, as Indo-China was caught in the grip of the wet monsoon, which had temporarily limited the scale of the civil war. Last week Laguerre cabled...
...citizens spend $100 million a year on their libraries, but that is only two-thirds of what they spend on bowling alleys and billiards. Furthermore, although 90% of U.S. adults listen to the radio every day, and 50% of them go to the movies at least once a fortnight, about half (48%) never read a book from one year's end to another. Only one in ten is a library regular...
...Juneau came to Far Eastern waters earlier this year, her mission was one of peacetime training. Few of her complement had seen action and officers admitted that her men were "below standards desirable for combat." They were still below standard when the Juneau headed north about a fortnight ago under wartime orders. Then one day the lookout spotted four torpedo boats bearing down on the ship...
Shortly after a Tommy gun cut down Sicilian Badman Salvatore Giuliano last fortnight (TIME, July 17), a British camera crew took off for Sicily to make a film about the bandit's bloody exploits. Producer Nelson Scott revealed that he had ordered the story written months ago, had patiently waited ever since for the real-life ending...