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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old orchestra, starting its 18th year on CBS, with Leopold Stokowski conducting Bach's Ich Steh' mit Einem Fuss im Grabe; Brahms's Symphony No. 2 in D Major; Debussy's Nuages, Fêtes and Sirènes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Sunday Evening Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC). The Detroit Symphony, with Pianist Henrietta Schumann: Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1; Ganne's Marche Lorraine', Massenet's Scènes Alsaciennes: Weber's Overture to Der Freischütz. Conductor: Valter Poole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Porfeño. As Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, Perón went about getting the backing of both peón and porteño. He upped peónes' wages to as much as $30 a month, guaranteed them a two-hour rest after lunch (called the "Siesta of Perón"). Some of the worst-off, like the miserable sugar-cane workers around Tucuman, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Prodigal's Return | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...nicht ein schones Schwein?" cried the barmaid in the Nazi beer garden, when a pig fell into the beautiful blue Danube (which was muddy-brown) and floated on a board past the ancient German city of Regensburg. "Ja, das ist ein schönes Schwein!" wailed the hungry, war-worn customers. Even the portly mayor of Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bemelmans v. the Nazis | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

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