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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Czech Composer Leos Janacek (Jenufa) was fascinated by Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel. From the House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp. In 1928, in the last year of his life but still at the peak of his powers. Janacek used the Dostoevsky work as the basis of a three-act opera. It had one of its rare performances last summer at the Holland Festival, where it was recorded by Phillips, and last week Aus Einem Totenhaus was released in the U.S. on two Epic...
...Tony got back in form when he and Vic Seixas teamed up to take the Davis Cup. Only twice after that, as he played the international amateur-tennis circuit, did Tony relax and lose. When he reached Paris last month to defend his French title, he was at his peak. He won easily...
Nevertheless, in 1954 the U.S. consumed but 83 million bbls.-4,000,000 bbls. less than the alltime peak in 1947. In terms of per capita consumption, the dip is even sharper; beer sales last year were down almost 15% from the wartime high of 18.7 gals, per person. And beer is not the only beverage industry hit: hard liquor sales have slumped nearly 30% from the postwar high, to 1.18 gals, per capita. And sales of soft drinks are also down...
...tourist season nears its peak, U.S. vacationists are on the move -about their own country and on record invasions of foreign shores. The travelers, according to reports from all our sources, are devoting themselves mostly to just plain fun, like the newlyweds motoring down the Loire Valley in a rented new bug-model Citroen, the bald Philadelphian sipping vermouth and eying the Italian beauties strolling along Rome's Via Veneto, or the middle-aged sportsmen playing at being matadors in Madrid's new bullfighting cafe...
...when the war ended, S. & W. ran into rough weather. In a single year, the line saw its gross plummet nearly 50% from the 1953 peak of $13.6 million. It returned six leased DC-4s, chopped its personnel, and hustled up private air freight, flying everything from European leather goods for the carriage trade to Indian rhesus monkeys for the Salk polio-vaccine program. It bought four new Lockheed Super Constellations to give customers faster service, expanded its service to the point where this year's revenues will top $15 million. Next step: more expansion by buying more long...