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Still unruffled, Stokowski got down to the main business of the evening, Shostakovich's 80-minute masterwork. Discreetly Conductor Stokowski had cut the symphony's tortuous length by nearly half, but as he boomed and rattled into the home stretch of the first movement the audience shuffled and groaned impatiently, electricians began jabbering over their microphones, newsreel men noisily ground their cameras. Suddenly Stokowski stopped the orchestra. Said he: "Men, there is a little more of this symphony to play. I do not know whether you want to hear it and it does not matter...
Some of the old: Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women and Little Men; the novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim; Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan's studies on the influence of sea power in history; John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; and above all the masterwork of "the mother of level measurements," Fannie Farmer. Her Boston Cooking-School Book has sold over 2,000,000 copies, is rapidly creeping up on Gone With the Wind, which has sold over 3,000,000 copies. Such perennials ("back list") can be the most dependably profitable part of any publishing business that...
...well-informed of all U.S. collectors of his generation. His collection was the finest in the U.S. in works of the Flemish school, was also unexcelled in Dutch masterpieces and Spanish and German primitives, trailed only the top-ranking U.S. collections in Renaissance Italians. It also contained a masterwork that would have watered the mouths of such Johnson rivals as the late Andrew Mellon: a postcard-sized St. Francis by van Eyck, whose $500,000 valuation makes it the most expensive painting per square inch...
Valiantly but vainly has Interior Secretary Harold LeClair Ickes tried to get in on the U.S. defense program, but last week he found an alternative. His Fish and Wildlife Service produced a five-page masterwork entitled "Seafood Salads for Summer Menus." Argued the Department's expert-in-charge-of-seafood-salads: "As a heat-forgetter, for unexpected company, or as a quickly prepared meal-in-itself in a busy household, try a tangy seafood salad during the coming summer days." Sang the expert, crediting "Unknown...
This week, with the help of Collaborator Edward Anthony, Schechter recounts in an anecdotal history the saga of his eight years as newschief for NBC. Entitled I Live on Air,† his masterwork is sometimes lively, sometimes arch, in describing strange doings that range from wiring the pyramids in Egypt for sound to putting on a contest among singing mice. Many are the bad aerial breaks that he recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take...