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...century. That interest in turn has sent students burrowing through monastery attics, museums and castles in search of long-lost scores. One of the more esoteric recent finds has come from the Escolanía (music school) of Montserrat in Spain, where California-born Pianist Frederick Marvin unearthed a hoard of keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, 18th century Spain's only great instrumental composer. Last week, in a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall, Pianist Marvin put a few samples of his find on display...
...higher prices and incomes than in 1956. Buttressing his opinion were some hopeful facts. Hog and cattle prices are better than last year; the broiler industry appears to be overcoming a surplus problem, and dairymen are producing and selling more than last year. The Government's price-depressing hoard of surplus wheat, cotton and corn is slowly being whittled away. And this year farmers are eligible for $1.2 billion in soil-bank payments...
...gold, caskets of silver . . . the cave of Ali Baba stored with stolen gold and silver, the underground garden in which Aladdin found jewels growing on trees ... A wholly materialist city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious: a miser's glittering hoard . . . This is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries...
NICKEL STOCKPILING will be halted on Jan. 1 for first time since Korean war. Office of Defense Mobilization thinks new sources of supply from Canada and Cuba will soon lick shortage of defense metal", already has big enough hoard to divert 25 million Ibs. of nickel slated for stockpile to private industry in fourth quarter...
FARM SURPLUS will grow this year despite heavy Government sales. Though U.S. has got rid of almost $1.8 billion in surplus goods (15% more than last year) in fiscal 1956, increased buying because of lower farm prices boosted total hoard to $8.2 billion v. $7.1 billion at end of fiscal...