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...also, apparently, frozen up their playing, and Detroit critics were quick to notice it. Wrote the Detroit Times after a concert last week: "A morass of spotty mediocrity . . . the low point of the season." After the next night's repeat performance, Reichhold grabbed a real hot potato with both hands. He rushed backstage, delivered an ultimatum: "Either the orchestra does something immediately about the press, or 90 men will be out of a job. Dr. Krueger and I have fought bad publicity by ourselves long enough. Now it's up to you." He ordered them to protest...
Mushrooming Houses. The next year, brother Alfred designed a 25 by 30 two-bedroom bungalow to rent for $65 a month. These went over so well that the Levitts bought a 1,000-acre potato farm near Hempstead, L.I., named it Levittown, and started building houses on it at the rate of 150 a week. The houses were neat and trim but so much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population...
...they had once been Jews and human beings, now they were living skeletons, beastlike in their mad hunger. They flung themselves on the dust bins, or rather plunged into them, head and shoulders, several at a time; they scratched up everything, absolutely everything that was lying in them, potato peel, garbage, rottenness of every kind . . . The whole time, without a break, the blows from rubber truncheons were hailing down on them...
...midmorning, despite a drizzling rain, one of the biggest crowds in Tallahassee's history was standing in front of Florida's steepled old state capitol. Democrat Fuller Warren, onetime farm boy from Calhoun County's peanut and sweet-potato country, was about to be inaugurated governor-belly laugh, handshake, campaign promises and all. The folks expected a good show. They...
...Weeks. The Department of Commerce brought out a calendar solemnly listing the "Special Days, Weeks and Months in 1949," with which U.S. admen will woo consumers this year. From "Idaho Potato & Onion Week," which growers are plugging this week, through "Woo Woo-National Sweater Week" starting Sept. 26, there will hardly be a letup. The week of April 1, said the department with tongue-in-cheek, will be known as "National Leave Us Alone Week...