Word: fours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schumann's Konzertstueck for four horns and orchestra, Op. 86, was another sort of problem, for while it was good to hear this interesting, energetic piece, it was plain that the supremely confident soloists required had not been found, the horn being a notoriously intractable beast. There was volume, but no dash, nor was the Orchestra able to warm to its part in the proceedings. Unhappily, the Brahms Tragic Overture also turned out in a pale, unsatisfying version. The opening was uncomfortably ponderous rather than massive, while the uncanny march towards the middle was revved up to a prosaic speed...
...whether many heavy smokers eventually died of the disease. Wanted, said critics of these studies, was anatomical evidence showing the gradual development of cancer in smokers' lungs. Dr. Auerbach's previous reports (1955 and 1957) on this development had been challenged on technical grounds. This time, his four-man team was determined to plug every conceivable research loophole...
...Married and the father of two daughters, Bannow sings a rousing first bass in a Bridgeport male chorus, the North Star Singers, has given up soccer with Bridgeport's Swedish Athletic Club to play golf. Traveling with his wife, he will spend two weeks out of four on the road next year on N.A.M. projects. In talks on inflation, he will emphasize to his audience that he has raised his prices only once in the last 20 years...
...Agency's Allen Dulles recently told the Boiling "growth" subcommittee of Congress, is that at the outset of World War I, Russia was the world's sixth or seventh industrial power. But, said Dulles, "in the short space of 30 years since 1928, despite the ravages of four war years and several years of reconstruction, the Soviet Union has become second." Today, Dulles estimated, Russia's gross national product is around 45% of the U.S.'s G.N.P...
...opposition to low-priced Japanese cotton imports. When the Japanese were forced to diversify and impose voluntary quotas, many big U.S. department-and variety-store buyers took their business to Hong Kong. The British colony's factories and sweatshops have tripled to an estimated 500 in the past four years, boosted the number of workers from 4,000 to 50,000. To compete in the cut throat world textile market, the Hong Kong garmentmakers' chief weapon has been cheap labor; the average daily wage is $1.77 for a ten-to twelve-hour...