Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trio No. 4 in D Major, Op. 70 (Adolf Busch, violin; Hermann Busch, cello; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Columbia, 6 sides). This trio ("The Ghost") is of lesser nobility- except for its fine misterioso slow movement -than his Trio No. 6, Op. 97 ("The Archduke"), but here it is splendidly performed. Recording: excellent...
...Mexican baseball after one season, and tried to climb back. Complains Gardella: "Not only did organized baseball blacklist me, but it wouldn't permit me to earn a living in semi-pro ball . . . He filed suit against the Giants, against Baseball Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler and the major & minor leagues...
...Virtual Slavery?" Happy Chandler's attitude, expressed last week, was that "no major leaguer makes less than $5,000 a year and some make up to $100,000. If you call that peonage, then a lot of us would like to be in it." But Gardella had one answer to that: his salary with the Giants had ranged from $1,850 to $4,000. Judge Jerome Frank of the court of appeals had another: "Only the totalitarian-minded will believe that higher pay excuses virtual slavery...
...women into executive jobs. Such benevolent maternalism allowed her to run an open shop for years. When the union arrived in 1946, it was a conservative union of which Mrs. Kerr could approve. The A.F. of L.'s Glass Bottle Blowers' Association hasn't had a major strike in 58 years...
...Born. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret), 58, hawk-faced ex-skipper of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force who now runs a Chinese commercial airline, and Anna Chan Chennault, 25, former Shanghai newspaperwoman: their first child (he had eight others by a previous marriage), a daughter; in Canton. Name: Claire Anna. Weight...