Word: hinterlander
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...threadbare "boxoffice concertos" (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky). Recently he wanted to play Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was told he couldn't because it would take an extra orchestra rehearsal, an expensive proposition. But he enjoys exploring the U.S.'s musical hinterland, playing old works in towns where they are still new. Says he: "In Europe, there is always the memory of the greats before you; there is always Joachim.* In new cities, you yourself can be Joachim...
...circulation. He has a weekly sports Record, (circ. 180,000), something for the kiddies called France Soir-Jeudi, a slick monthly, Réalités, which he calls "a very modest FORTUNE," and a syndicate called Scoop, which sells France-Soir's features to the hinterland. His wife, Héléne Gordon Lazareff, who trained on the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar, now edits Elle, a Parisian women's weekly magazine with New Yorkerish touches...
...From the hinterland of coal-hungry France, word reached Paris that a rich coal mine had been discovered at Tremolin in the Loire Department. Interministerial conferences were held. Then came the decree, signed by the President of the Government and the Ministers of Industrial Production, Finance and National Economy. It said: "All mining installations, materials, patents and licenses, buildings for housing the workers and other industrial chattels belonging to the Tremolin Mining Corporation, owned by Monsieur Jacques Garden are confiscated and declared state property...
When he was campaigning for the presidency, Juan Domingo Perón had had a lot of help from the Roman Catholic clergy. Some 500 priests stumped the hinterland; Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello issued a Perón-slanted pastoral letter. Last week, Perón paid...
...agreed to channel to Cartagena a big chunk of the Magdalena River traffic that had lately overcrowded Barranquilla's docks. Lawyer Navarro also got Government backing for a modern $2,500,000 sewage system, plus promises of new Government buildings and a railroad to tap Cartagena's hinterland...