Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still it was not enough to satisfy her youthful dream. She recorded an album of Haydn sonatas (released this summer), immediately made arrangements to record Bach's Three-Part Inventions. But that, at last, was denied. One morning last week, in her home in Connecticut, Wanda Landowska suffered a stroke, and there she died...
...steel-related industries has risen to about 125,000-60% in railroads and coal mining-and 75,000 of them have applied for unemployment aid. But there is not yet any shortage of steel for defense plants, and none looms in the near future. Foreign steelmakers were supplying part of the demand, used the situation to boost their prices-normally $30 to $40 per ton below U.S. mill prices-to the U.S. level or higher...
...Treasury's troubles are a key part -but only a part-of the squeeze on money. Because of the new boom, there has been a large rise in business loans, which have soared from a recession low of $52 billion in May 1958 to $58 billion last month. Heavy Government financing ($13 billion deficit last year), a record volume of state and local fund-raising in the first half of 1959, and a jump in consumer credit have added to the competition for funds. Following the surge, interest rates on bank business loans in 19 major cities went from...
...acceptable to girls with developing measurements. Admits Dobie: "It used to make me pretty jumpy when a girl started getting her bust." Most of the young ladies live next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie's part of Connecticut. As the gulls fly in from the Sound to rain clams on the roof, the families keep moving out, and turnover produces such attractions as Red Knees Baker, Rotten Girl Spencer, and Elizabeth Barrett Schultz...
...Journey is short on the supports of religion and the structure of philosophy, it is an often fascinating excursion into the literary riches of a sensuous and cultivated mind. Sitwell begins his journey at the point where he dies. Traveling with other newly dead, part way by plane, part way on a craft called the Ship of Fools, he makes a voyage calculated to charm those who share a measure of Sitwell's vast reading, just as it will surely bore those who want to get on with the business of man's soul...