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...melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden harvest, are all assured that the rewards of their prudence and honest toil shall not be filched from them...
Though it did not sound like it, the music was from the movies: a suite compiled by French-Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger (pronounced hahnegger) from the score he wrote for the earthy French film Harvest. Detached from the cinema, Honegger's spare, simply scored melodies still needed the titles he gave them: Panturle (the peasant of the picture, who finds strength in the love of a woman from the city); Spring in the Hills; Gedemus the Knife Grinder (whom the woman deserts for Panturle); Harvest...
...There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny-One-Note, he has written, besides Pacific 231, many a top-notch score, including two big, sombre Biblical works, Le Roi David and Judith. Among 20-odd cinema scores he did before Harvest, best-known in the U. S. were Mayerling and Pygmalion...
...public than he used to, has not spoken from the Piazza Venezia balcony since October, almost never receives the press. Last autumn for the first time in many years he failed to appear-stripped to the waist, swinging a pitchfork, sweating up his massive chest-at the Pontine Marshes harvest...
Last summer Chicago's mammoth International Harvester Co., No. i U. S. farm implement manufacturer, belatedly entered the booming small-implement market with a new, light tractor selling at $515, or $225 cheaper than any previous International model. Fortnight ago it caught up with the sensationally successful market in small combines (which harvest and thresh crops in a single operation as they move through fields) by introducing a 4-ft. model priced at $405-cheapest in the U. S. save for Allis-Chalmers' 40-in., $340 combine which opened up the small-combine field five years...