Word: mendelsohn
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...Mendelsohn joined the growing number of retailers who had run afoul of one of Britain's thriving, all-powerful monopolistic "price rings." In East Devon, when one of 60 bakers refused to go along and raise his bread price by a halfpenny, the others ganged up, threatened to have him put out of business. To a Birmingham grocer who cut the margarine price for old age pensioners and another in Cheshire who did the same with tea, went letters from wholesalers warning them to stop, else they would get no more supplies...
...months ago a customer walked into Horace Mendelsohn's auto-accessories shop in Stockport, near Manchester, England and bought two motorcycle tires, paying seven shillings, sixpence ($1.05) below the list price. Three days later, Cut-rater Mendelsohn learned that his "customer" was a private investigator for the British Motor Trade Association. He got a summons to appear before the association's Price Protection Committee on a charge of price cutting. The committee, a private court staffed with lawyers paid by the association, weighed Mendelsohn's case carefully, penalized him by putting his shop on the "Stop List...
Debate Council president Richard Levin '54, of Winthrop, Fred Mendelsohn '54, of Eliot, and George Fredrickson '56, of Lowell, will take the affirmative at Yale...
...Pierian Sodality will hold an open sight reading session in Sanders Theatre at 7:15 p.m. tonight to which all amateur musicians are invited. Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will conduct Mendelsohn's He brides Overture, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and Handel's Water Music...
...Felix's music, listeners heard a few characteristically lovely lieder-like tunes. But most of the score was more reminiscent of Mozart than of Mendelsohn. Considering that when Felix wrote it Mozart had been in his grave for nearly 40 years, there was little of wit or originality...