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...over the air. Igor Stravinsky conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikowski's Second Symphony last weekend, and next Sunday Bruno Walter expects to dust a few cobwebs from the Bruckner Eighth. All of which means that an increasingly mature music public is starting to demand its share of lesser-known, lesser-played works. Having been fed for the past decade on a staple diet of symphonic roast beef-the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, Wagner excerpts, Von Weber overtures-it is now broadening out, rather inquisitively poking its nose into a lot of stuff that for many years has lain...
...Lawyer Arthur A. Ballantine, Armstrong Cork Co.'s President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., Chrysler Corp. Director Harold Elstner Talbott Jr., Southern Railway President Ernest E. Norris. In the industrial South, businessmen's private talk indicated that many an anti-New Deal Democrat would break ranks for Willkie. Lesser-known backers who typify the kind of businessman Willkie represents: Brother Herman Frederick Willkie, Louisville vice president of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, a production man; Brother Robert Willkie, his assistant; Brother Edward E. Willkie of Chicago, vice president in charge of the salmon division of Libby, McNeil & Libby. All four Willkies...
...many of the more significant paragraphs have been unofficially translated by correspondents and special writers that practically no surprises are left. Among the livelier, least truthful and lesser-known assertions, however, one about the U. S. is worth attention...
...HURRICANE'S CHILDREN-Carl Carmer-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Collection of 20 freshly-collected U. S. folk tales, interspersed with roaring prose poems, about the tall doings of such giant standbys as Paul Bunyan, such lesser-known U. S. genii as Ichabod Paddock and Kemp Morgan, a Nebraska newcomer named Febold Feboldsen...
ELIZABETHAN TALES-edited by Edward J. O'Brien-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Indefatigable Editor O'Brien (Best Short Stories, annually since 1915) here collects 25 short stories by Elizabethans Sir Philip Sidney (see p. 101), Thomas Nashe, Robert Greene, Nichols Breton, lesser-known worthies...