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...political corruption has earned him the title of "The Little Scorpion" among Oklahoma hoodlums. Last week Reporter Bulloch was indicted by a federal grand jury in Tulsa on the very charge that has jailed more than a dozen mobsters he has exposed in the Tribune. The charge: conspiracy to import liquor into bone-dry Oklahoma...
...concert concluded with Mozart's D-minor Piano Concerto, K. 466, surely his finest contribution to the medium. This is a work of tragic import, until the last pages of the rondo almost turn it into a gay ensemble from an opera buffa. The piano soloist was Kenneth McIntosh, who, versatile trouper that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered...
...Time for Masking. For all Dior's success, Paris couture in general is in parlous economic shape. Eastern European markets (except for exiled royalty) have dried up. Currency and import restrictions have cut purchases from Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil and Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays...
...retired to our island, licked our wounds and pretended it was a bad dream of no significance. But in Britain we are now ready for the decisive offer." The offer: to participate in a European Free Trade Area of 17 nations, within which there would be no tariffs or import quotas on manufactured goods (TIME...
Nobel Bargain. Through the center, the various colleges and universities have been able to import a procession of visiting lecturers that any Ivy Leaguer might envy. The visitors have included everyone from Julian Huxley and Bertrand Russell to Nobel Prizewinner Otto Loewi of New York University and Buu-Hoi of the Institut de France. They may lecture at only two campuses or at all, but none has cost any one college more than...