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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Selman married Deborah Mitnick, a girl from the old country who had come to join her brother in the U.S. Back at Rutgers in 1918 as a lecturer in soil microbiology, after getting his Ph.D. at the University of California, Waksman worked mostly on the soil problems of farmers. But he began asking himself a question which is still far from answered: What do microbes do to the soil, to each other, and ultimately...
Lost In the Stars (words by Maxwell Anderson; music by Kurt Weill; produced by the Playwrights' Company) refashions Alan Paton's moving story of South African race relations, Cry, the Beloved Country, into a kind of choral drama. It tells of an old Negro's search for his errant son, who has killed a great white champion of the Negro race, of the boy's repentance and death, and of the symbolic coming-together of the two stricken fathers...
...production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars might have been twice as good...
Nipped Heels. With old-fashioned competition now in full cry, the race was to the swift, but not necessarily to the biggest. Some giants were holding their own; e.g., Procter & Gamble. Under its hard-selling new president, Neil McElroy, who worked up through P. & G. advertising to the presidency last October, the company boosted its net from $13.2 million to $19.7 million (a gain of nearly 50% for the Sept. 30 quarter). International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson turned in a $24.7 million net for the nine months, up 16%, while most of his rivals felt declines. But many...
There was hardly anybody who did not know somebody who had made a killing in the market. And last week, exactly 20 years after the era of wonderful nonsense suddenly collapsed, there was hardly anybody in Wall Street old enough to remember, who did not shiver a bit at the memory of October...