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...take on the world's biggest housekeeping job, General Cervices Administrator Edmund F. Mansure, 52, has found so many ways to save the Government money that he is becoming almost as legendary an economizer as was parsimonious Cal Coolidge. Mansure is so meticulous that when eating beef hash, he separates the meat from the potatoes. Unlike most bureaucrats who throw away paper clips, Mansure keeps his until he has a big enough pile to turn over to his secretary. Aware that time is also money, he saves it with staff warnings: "Observe the three Bs-be brief be bright...
Many student practitioners of twelve-tone music pervert it to either intellectual hogwash or emotional hash. But Paul Knudson, in his Lyric Suite, produced a series of diversified, well-calculated effects ranging from desolation to jaunty self-confidence. And a little ditty by Christian Wolff, For Piano II, was notable for its extremely disjointed phrases, its bare, unornamented texture, and its utilization of the piano's percussive sonorities. On Monday night, Joel Mandelbaum's Piano Concerto in A received its premiere performance. Mandelbaum conducted the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and Ann Besser, to whom the work was dedicated, was soloist...
...Meanwhile, some sort of standardization for exhibitors is a problem. Exhibitors were invited to Manhattan last week to meet the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers to hash the matter over. At the moment, each system has its enthusiastic rooter. Fox's Spyros P. Kouras, flying off to scout the 3-D foreign field, predicted that by next October some 2,500 theaters across the country will be equipped for Cinemascope...
...often tease Kate by telling off-color stories or pretending to an excessive thirst for alcohol. Finally Kate told them airily: "You boys think you're awfully wicked, don't you? Why, you don't know what the word 'wicked' means." That settled their hash. Says Bogart, still brooding over it: "Now what the hell she meant by that, I don't know...
...convention campaign had tested several techniques of television political coverage. One of the most widely used is the panel discussion, which tends, unless rehearsed, to be a hash of unrelated statements. When it is rehearsed, it tends to be a cliche contest. The giant "press conference" is another waste of time in most cases, although occasionally (e.g., Ike's first press conference at Abilene) it comes to life. One of the most successful TV techniques is the small press conference, with one public man and eight or ten really well-trained reporters...