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...band maestro for 28 years. Except for the brazenly modern harmonies and voicings of his new arrangements, the "Basie sound" has remained steadfastly the same all along. With Benny Goodman his main competition, Basie was a swing king in the '30s, and his style is still defiantly prewar. In the first years of bop, Basie was considered so sadly reactionary that his band endured a long eclipse. Then, after four years' touring with a small combo, Basie collected a new 16-piece ensemble in 1952, and within a year it was fully established as the swingingest band...
While Karamanlis sulked in a Swiss villa for three months and a caretaker Cabinet led by his political allies ruled the country, the opposition Center Union Party launched an intense election campaign. It was led by an aged Demosthenes, George Papandreou, 75, veteran of several prewar Cabinets and the nation's first postwar Premier...
...thing Daimler-Benz has created since Walter Hitzinger, 55, took over two years ago as chairman of the vastly successful automaker (1962 sales: $900 million). Though the decision to build the 600 had been made earlier, Hitzinger sped it along in the belief that the company should resume its prewar practice of producing an "ultraprestige" auto for nobles and moguls. Production will not begin in earnest until next summer, but Daimler-Benz already has orders for more than...
Hachette has exerted no depressing influence on the quality of the French press, which has detectably improved since the venal prewar period when the news columns of nearly any paper could be bought. It has been argued that Hachette's omnipresence discourages the rise of new papers. But it is not easy to pin the blame on Hachette. While it is true that newspaper circulation has declined since the war-by 2,000,000 in Paris and a like amount in the provinces-there are many contributing reasons: TV, the new emphasis on leisure pursuits, and even Charles...
After V-E day, the Allies dismembered Farben, splitting off the large Hoechst and B.A.S.F. branches and leaving Bayer with only its badly damaged plant at Leverkusen and 3,000 employees. Came the cold war and Bayer in 1952 was permitted to repossess most of its prewar plants and resume full speed. Bayer's Rhineside headquarters at Leverjusen now embrace 600 buildings, including a 33-story skyscraper that is Germany's tallest. Looking Outward. A concentration on foreign markets has helped put Bayer ahead of its German competitors. Nearly half its sales are exports, and it has interests...