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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atonality is no longer as fashionable as it was, and even No. 1 Atonalist Schönberg, who is now in Hollywood (but not of it), has begun to put slightly more melodious whistles in his work. Not so, his disciple Krenek. Last spring Composer Krenek, in an article in Musical America, deplored the reaction of his contemporaries, exhorted them to turn back to the stern old days of esthetic revolution, of completely tuneless music...
...Show this week. The fact that the Horse Show Association has publicized their presence so widely is one indication of what is happening to the National. The Show is becoming less & less an exhibition, more & more the kind of colorful pageant that the riding academies of oldtime Vienna put on before...
...lost some money but learned how to be an executive in the short-lived Sun Motor Car Co., finally hitched his trailer to a star in 1918 by joining Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. then headed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.* When Hyatt was taken over by GM, Weaver was put to work on sales statistics and market analyses. In 1925 he won a Harvard Award for Market Research for a study of quantitative markets...
...psychology king, available for ideas on any subject. Though he met some opposition at first, he put over himself and his ideas with the same technique he uses on the public-a steady flow of booklets, memos and "Thought Starters" (little Aesop-like homilies pointing up sound sales morals) circulated within the organization. Pretty far down the line on GM's organizational chart, Buck Weaver gets only about $20,000 a year salary...
Building has put up the toughest resistance to Depression II. Last week new construction was 216% ahead of last year...