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Russia's music is systematically organized-from the mightiest flames of Russian creative inspiration down to the lowliest tuba spit valve. A Soviet bureau called Glavnoe Musicalno Pravelenya (Glavmus for short) spends over 6,000,000 rubles a year ($1,200,000) keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces...
...heartening days after the breakthrough at Saint-LÔat the breaking of the Siegfried Line might not be too hard a task. But experienced generals like leathery Courtney Hodges knew differently. By now even the lowliest of his slugging G.I.s, up against the enemy among his earthworks, his forests, his staggered rows of pillbox forts, knew that the job was probably one of the toughest since Dday...
...Rancher at Home. Thousands know Sam Rayburn of Washington, the shy, hardworking, orderly minded man who has a kind word for the lowliest of Capitol employes. Very few know Sam Rayburn, the rancher, the Squire of Bonham, the North Texas cattleman...
...college football teams invited to play post-season Bowl games, Oregon State College was the lowliest underdog. Twice defeated, the Staters had been scorned as the weakest team ever to represent the West in a Rose Bowl game. Powerful Duke, undefeated, untied and on statistics the nation's No. 1 offensive team, was favored to win by at least two touchdowns...
...spends a year in the compulsory Labor Service, learning that it won't hurt his hands to use them for hard work, won't hurt his elbows to rub them against those of the lowliest Germans. Finally he is ready to join the Army as an officer-candidate...