Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rice and flour have been coming to General Tu's armies from Shanghai through the port of Chinwangtao. Supplies started moving north this week beyond the Great Wall over the Peiping-Mukden railroad, which so far has suffered relatively minor damage. At Mukden there will be more rice and flour, unless the Russians or Communists have cleared them out. If heavy fighting develops, ammunition supplies will be another problem: ammunition must still come up from the south...
Beethoven: Sonata in F Minor "Ap-passionata" (Artur Rubinstein; Victor, $ sides) and Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Artur Rubinstein and the NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Chopinist Rubinstein takes on Beethoven. Concerto No. 3, recorded at a radio broadcast, has some technical limitations but few musical ones. Performance of both: excellent...
...main characteristic of Faure is a self-contained and well-controlled lyricism which overflows from the minor works into his few large orchestral pieces. Usually, the content deals with a highly individual and somewhat unemotional experience, as contrasted with the generalized, synthetic experiences of most late Romanticism. Despite evident overwriting for the woodwinds in relleas at Melisande and ineffective use of both violin and 'cello in the Trio opus 120, his themes are well handled...
...Angeles Juvenile Judge A. A. Scott was impressed-"If Ellsworth gets into any more of these jams, he will be the most sought-after man in the U.S." -but unmoved: he sent Sonny Boy to jail as an incorrigible, booked Mrs. Deveny for contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
...planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill him with wonder. ". . . All that is best io China is crystallized in their presence." Forever China is a literary adventure and discovery. It sometimes suffers from, overwriting and hyperbole. But these are minor flaws among the major pleasures of a superior book. There is a good sample of the Payne style in his evaluation of the bygone Chinese warrior-poet Shen Shan...