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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockmann's, the big department store whose shelves were empty two years ago, now has fine pottery, glassware, furniture, Finnish handicraft. Fats and meat are rare, but the Finnish calory level is higher than most of Europe's; eggs, potatoes and vegetables are off the ration list. A smartly dressed woman in Helsinki is marked as a visiting Swede from the neighboring land of plenty, for clothes are still scarce (one pair of stockings each year for women, one suit and one shirt for each man every 16 months, new shoes only for industrial workers...
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor (Eugene List, pianist, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, Alfred Wallenstein conducting; Decca, 10 sides). The concerto which is rapidly replacing Tchaikovsky's as the most heard and most abused, played by President Truman's favorite pianist (TIME, April 22). The late composer's own recording for Victor (1929) remains the definitive one. Performance: good...
Reservations and waiting lists have become a joke in many places, simply because it is much easier to. sell to the "go-show" (airline lingo for the passenger without a reservation who takes a chance on getting aboard at the last minute in place of the "no-show") than to check a long waiting list by phone...
...Smith and Charley Gudaitis have returned to fill guard vacancies, and the College rolls also list a few names which have never appeared on H.A.A. programs, but their possessors may offer healthy competition for starting berths. Smith and Gudaitis, teammates on the 1941 Freshman squad, moved up to the Varsity eleven the following year, and improved steadily during that season...
...LABOR'S ACTIVE LIST...