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...conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor). The dozenth LP of this masterpiece and the second by the Maestro and his men. This one has the advantages of modern recording techniques, and Toscanini, 85 when he made the recording, shows undiminished vigor (the finale whips along like 60). The fancy album leaflet includes an appreciation by Essayist André Maurois...
...many companies have expertly staffed departments working full-time on nothing but suggestion programs. They have found that even a light nudge goes a long way. General Electric had little success with suggestions in its Utica. N.Y. plant until it repainted its boxes, put up posters and published a leaflet entitled A Penny for Your Thoughts. Almost 200 suggestions poured in. Boeing, which last year paid out $105.170 for suggestions that saved it $1,653,000, honors its star suggesters with "Man of the Week," "Man of the Month'' and "Man of the Year" titles...
...leading grocery store. Sovetsky visky, which, according to New York Times Correspondent Harrison E. Salisbury, "smells like American rye and tastes like not a bad Irish," comes in two sizes: a handy half-liter flask and a large economy-size flagon. Price: 24.7 rubles ($6.17) a pint.* Says the leaflet which accompanies each bottle: "You can drink it straight, from vodka or cognac glasses, mixed with soda water, or with a sliver of lemon and powdered sugar added to taste...
Last week, the head of Vienna's kindergarten system warned parents that the effect of an interview with Krampus might well leave their children scarred for life. In a leaflet called Krampus Is an Evil Man, Dr. Ernst Kotbauer urged that his children be freed of the frightful cross-examiner. A Vienna daily rushed to Dr. Kotbauer's support. "There is too much fear in the world already," it said, "unemployment, high taxes, not to mention the atom bomb. Let's begin by throwing out Krampus...
Between Two Fires. Von Einsiedel was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp near Moscow. There he found himself between two fires: the aimless cruelty of the Russians and the purposeful vindictiveness of some of his fellow Germans, who had heard about the leaflet and regarded von Einsiedel as a traitor. Wonderingly, not sure of his own motives, von Einsiedel felt himself pulled by the "magical attraction" of Communism's "well-knit, clear religion." He joined the small group of German officers, under Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, in the Russian-sponsored Committee for Free Germany...