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...singers got off the Cunarder Saxoma at Greenock, Scotland, lined up on the pier on the River Clyde and began to sing (Loch Lomond). They kept singing all the way across Britain, Holland, Denmark and Germany-in crowded auditoriums, sight-seeing buses, third-class railway carriages and even on the streets. They had their share of crises, including-at Scheveningen, Holland-the loss of the conductor's white dress waistcoat (two local tailors provided a new one in exchange for a pair of tickets). Everywhere they are stirring up waves of good feeling and applause. Salt Lake City...
...EXPORTS are steaming ahead, the Commerce Department reports. The business boom in Western Europe and Canada pushed American sales abroad to $8.1 billion for the year's first seven months, a full 10% above the comparable period of last year. Biggest increases in sales were to Canada, Britain, Holland, Germany, more than offsetting declining exports to Asia and Latin America...
...kind of musical traffic cop. Movie men are dreaming up a biographical film, while elsewhere, scholars are toiling at a new, complete edition of the master's music. Mightiest of Mozartean memorials is a project to record the bulk of all his compositions. It is being undertaken by Holland's giant Philips Phonographic Industries (U.S. outlets: the Epic and Columbia labels...
...containing a 4,000-seat amphitheater, a stage that could be adapted for concerts or theater-in-the-round, and floodlights etching the surrounding trees-hemlock, white pine, maple and cherry. The Empire State Music Festival was ready for business. The opening concert (Beethoven and Brahms) was conducted by Holland's standout Eduard van Beinum; the next night a U.S. conductor, Emerson Buckley, led a setless but fresh-sounding La Boheme. Planned later this season: Shakespeare's Tempest, with the rarely heard incidental music by Jean Sibelius. Wrote the New York Times's Howard Taubman: "The Berkshires...
...international shipbuilding market. Foreign orders for 1955's first half alone have hit 250,000 tons, some 114,000 tons more than all of 1954. Among the 13 nations that have ordered tankers and freighters from France: the U.S. (four tankers for Tide Water Associated Oil Co.), Britain, Holland and Norway, all traditional maritime powers that normally build their own ships...