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...planning had been an off-again-on-again affair. It was off after the Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry a strand at a time, allocate materials, fix production quotas for the period between VE and V-J days. What businessmen said about this privately was often unprintable. They did not want to be led from war to peace; they wanted to pick...
...southern Appalachian songs which she learned at singing gatherings in North Carolina, she sings Old English, Irish and Scottish ballads which Susie digs out of the public-library music room. She comes from a ballad-singing family (papa is acting overseas with a camp show), and Susie learned to pluck her harp and zither at home. Her mother is an executive of the American Theater Wing...
Twice a week during the two-month session, the young women come to "The Temple of the Harp," Salzedo's pastel-hued, ultra-modernized house, for instruction either from the maestro or from his 32 -year-old American wife. The rest of the time the busy fingers pluck on their Berlioz, Debussy, Saint-Saens lessons-or on the compositions of Salzedo himself. Says the maestro: "Only males can compose. Women, including women harpists, are made to compose babies...
...Hindu Communist pundit, who is opposing Leopold S. Amery, Secretary of State for India, in Britain's general election, came felicitations from an eminent Indian wellwisher. Newly released after three years in jail, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu nationalist, paused briefly in Bombay to wire Dutt luck on his pluck. Dutt's chances of election: virtually...
Author Hutchinson eases the Orchilly family out of their dilemmas with the help of self-sacrifice and a spate of deaths and coincidences. But even readers who respect his serious intent are likely to find Interim disappointing. It is not only cheapened by arty metaphors ("I ceased to pluck at the sleeve of time") and an ornate vocabulary (including "presby-opic," "subfusc," "lincrusta," "curtilage"), but also lacks the dramatic quality of Author Hutchinson's earlier novels (The Unf or gotten Prisoner-TIME, Feb. 26, 1934; Shining Scabbard-TIME, Dec. 28, 1936). Like The Keys of the Kingdom, Interim...