Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music's "anti-aggression front" salvoed its reply last week. In Lucerne, Switzerland, for the second year, opened a month-long festival designed to cabbage some of the Salzburg trade. Biggest tourist bait, as he was last summer, was Arturo Toscanini, whose European pond has shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist...
Honorary Secretary C. I. Blackburne of Surrey's Haslemere Educational Museum, who managed the British end of the experiment, had no idea last week how soon, if at all, the storks would get back to Poland. "If they find a nice farm," he said, "with a frog pond they might decide to stay quite a while...
United Artists Corp., founded 20 years ago to distribute pictures for independent producers, is today a relatively small pond full of big fish. Biggest fish is Samuel Goldwyn (né Goldfish), who has owned U. A.'s studios since 1935 and last week renamed them the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. Producer Goldwyn proposes to make Music School, with Violinist Jascha Heifetz, and The Real Glory, with Gary Cooper. Other U. A. producers and their promises: Charles Chaplin, The Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter...
Having learned the joys of being a conspicuous little frog in the national pond, Maury Maverick went home vowing to become the biggest frog in San Antonio. He formed a Fusion party (named after Fiorello LaGuardia's in New York) and went after Mayor Quin's machine. He centred his campaign on the squalid life of San Antonio's peon pecan shellers (the biggest voting bloc), got Eleanor Roosevelt down to look at them, accused Quin & Co. of a long list of offenses at least one of which -padding the city payroll with 555 voters -brought Quin...
...machine tool industry, which, like aircraft, averages only $200,000,000 a year of business is getting 20% of its domestic orders from U. S. arms spending and 50% from exports (practically all arms). One of the industry's most promising war babies, Niles-Bement-Pond Co., which has an order backlog of $2,200,000 (big for it but a trifle in the national economy) was meanwhile going in the market for eleven times its 1938 earnings, while investors priced ordinary market leader Chrysler at 16 times 1938 earnings...