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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concert-Tour Legend. At 33, Fischer-Dieskau has become a concert-tour legend in Europe and the U.S.: almost singlehanded, he has accounted for the postwar popularity of the German art song. On his U.S. tours, he has held audiences rapt through the whole of Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise and through the complete Schumann Dichterliebe. He has reached an even wider public through his 40-odd LP recordings, including Hugo Wolf's 16 Songs, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Brahms's German Requiem, albums of Mahler songs...
...rising sales have checked the drastic cutting of inventories, one of the heaviest pressures on the economy. Manufacturers' inventories of finished goods in October held to the same $48.9 billion level as September, the first month since August 1957 that manufacturers did not cut stocks. Instead of living off their stocks, as they had been for a year, businessmen were stepping up their buying again. One immediate result was a lessening of unemployment. The Labor Department reported that employment picked up in most of the nation's major industrial centers last month. Six areas were removed from...
...ridiculous to hold elections now," Stephen D. Isaacs '59, chairman of the Adams House Committee, commented. "We have a right to decide when elections are to be held." Adams House will hold its election during the reading period...
...factors, Wyman said, would make postponement impractical. First, the new officers of the Student Council will be elected January 14, and, with late elections, some members might be unable to vote. Secondly, Wyman emphasized that postponed elections would have to be held close to the start of the examination period...
Under the Council constitution, elections for House representatives must be held in December; but there is no genuine reason why the new Council could not have been chosen earlier in the month, when most students were still in town...