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Last week, it looked as if wily old (65) Colonel Behn might have to relax his tight grip. At the best, he would probably have to share control of l.T. & T. with a rambunctious new group of his stockholders. At the worst, he might lose control completely of his $397 million domain...
Indeed it was. Eighteen of the 20 unions with which the Cemmunist-dominated C.G.T. had launched its political strike drive were partly or wholly back at work. Even the two unions on which the Red grip was strongest-the miners and dockers-were straining at the leash...
Upton Sinclair, his radical grip long since relaxed, continued to dream up out of newspaper files further scenes from modern history as witnessed by his ubiquitous wonder boy, Lanny Budd...
Christian missionaries still function in Communist-held parts of China; some have worked for six or eight years within Red territory. Their lot is not easy, and becomes more difficult as the Communist grip tightens. A glimpse of southern Hopeh province came last week in a letter from a Roman Catholic missionary whose name cannot be used. Father C. wrote...
...like "Four Saints" or "Mother of Us All," but the music is exactly right--no more nor less--for its frightening story. Menotti is a composer who can be described only as appealing: his music uses modern devices, manages to attract the listener without letting him out of the grip of the opera in toto. He uses chiefly a semi-recitative style, but he proves conclusively his ability to write an aria with an exceptionally lovely song which he gives the daughter near the close of the first...