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...Year's Eve, laughing crowds in London's Piccadilly Circus, restored to its prewar dazzle only 18 months ago, gave a full-throated rendition of Auld Lang Syne. The New Year did not stay welcome for long. Last week, with housewives grousing over the latest cut in the meat ration (eight ounces to four ounces weekly), Piccadilly's neon lights were doused by a coal shortage...
Cross Your Fingers. It was Edward Johnson himself who first brought Rudolf Bing forward 23 months ago as a likely successor. The Met's directors were impressed by Bing's prewar experience with Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Company and the success he had made of the postwar Edinburgh Festivals. Bing's first acts as manager nonetheless made the 37 directors nervously cross their august fingers...
...Jofroi, a prewar Pagnol comedy based on a story by Jean Giono, proves the brightest thing in the package. Jofroi (well played by Vincent Scotto) is a hidebound old peasant, suspicious, ignorant and proud. The old man sells his orchard to his neighbor, Fonse (Henri Poupon), then pulls a gun when he sees Fonse uprooting precious trees. When the village priest forces a compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into...
...output fell below the same period in 1949. Last year Britain's mines had produced 24 million fewer tons than in 1938. The work force slumped to 687,000 men, lowest in the century, and it is falling off by 1,000 men weekly. Absenteeism has doubled since prewar...
...when the population, at its current rate of increase, will reach 162,000,000, Johnson believes the U.S. should be able to reach a gross national production of $350 billion (v. $270 billion now). This would provide a $245 billion market for consumer goods, double prewar and one-third greater than...