Word: productions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace drugstore and shuffle off to enjoy their rest on a Peace mattress. The first postwar Japanese civilian train to boast an observation car was christened the Peace Special and the government tobacco monopoly hired a corps on flashily dressed "peace girls" to boost the sales of its latest product, Peace cigarettes...
Marc Blitzstein, under a Koussevitzky commission, found these in "The Little-Foxes" by Lillian Hellman, and he calls the product "Regina." The play deals with a decadent, bickering Southern family which breaks to pieces over an unscrupulous money deal. The composer has worked into this a ball with many Southern belles and several appearances of singing and playing Negroes. In general the music effectively increases the tension, though, with a lack of variation in the first act which is exasperating. Many of the arias, particularly those of the sweet, flighty Birdie, are genuine mood pieces, effectively incorporating devices...
Secretary Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to commit Agriculture to a permanent policy of high price pegs. The Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed...
Already on its feet with a freshman Open House last Sunday, Phillips Brooks House is counting on a year of continuing expansion--more men involved in volunteer service work, better contacts with the local social agencies served, and as a by-product of its upped manpower better "quality" in all the work that is performed...
Maluf, earlier in his talk, answered the question of whether or not St. Benedict's was rebelling against the Church. He said that the doctrine of "no salvation" was the "primary injunction of the Church . . . All secondary injunctions contrary to this are the product of the new liberals and cannot be obeyed...