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...nine regulars on the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, first big-league team of all, only Shortstop George Wright went on to become a successful businessman (Wright & Ditson, sporting goods). The rest stayed only a pitch or two ahead of the bill collectors. One died in a San Fran cisco poorhouse; sentimental fans saved another from a pauper's grave. Growing prestige, says Professor Gregory, has opened a new world of post-retirement opportunities for the once-forgotten ballplayer. So many of them have turned to radio and television sportscasting* that the good professor concludes: "Old players never die, they...
...controversy out of this much discussed work. It is so securely played and sung, and so delicately balanced that the music emerges rich and even moving. Stravinsky is also represented by another fine performance, his 1914 opera Le Rossignol with Janine Micheau, and Jean Giraudeau, and forces of Radiodiffusion Française conducted by André Cluytens (Angel). The opening act, written before Stravinsky had emerged from the influence of Debussy, is ecstatic; Soprano Micheau's singing is always that...
Alarmed at last, Premier Faure sent an emissary to Poujade to try to buy him off, with money from the secret funds French Premiers have always used to buy off trouble (as Colonel François de la Rocque of the prewar Croix de Feu was bought off). Faure's offer (according to Poujade) was $280,000 and a seat on the Economic Council of the Republic. Poujade refused. Belatedly the government brought suit against him for "organization of collective refusal to pay taxes." With this authority, detectives rummaged through Poujade's files, ransacked his offices, tapped...
Last week, before the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, General Electric Co. Vice President Fran cis K. McCune said: "The gravest problem now facing the atomic energy business is that of liability for the consequences of an atomic incident. It is the business of private enterprise to take risks. It is, however, quite another thing to say that you will embark on a course which might affect the stability of your company or its very existence...
...Powers is probably the only U.S. Catholic writer who can describe the devil inside with the authority of a Graham Greene or a François Mauriac. He writes as well as they do, and in finding his devil in the homely incidents of everyday life, rather than in adultery, murder and suicide, he is perhaps the truer shocker...