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...Webern, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Milhaud long before their names had seeped into the record catalogues. Last week Conductor Scherchen was out plugging the work of another early comrade in music; in Frankfurt he conducted a series of packed performances of Igor Stravinsky's witty 18th century-styled opera, The Rake's Progress...
...cities revel in the choice of up to 1,800 separate items ranging from insecticide to canned swallow's nests, from canned Malayan pineapples to frozen pizzas and spaghetti in plastic bags. Increasingly, middle-class housewives leave their maids at home (thus ending the maids' expected rake-off on the week's shopping money), personally wheel their market carts in air-conditioned luxury past shelves labeled in English "roast chicken" (which presumably sounds more exotic than polio arrosto). Tommy-gun-toting guards accompany the cashiers to the company's central office with...
...Collusion. But outside the shrine's gates, the bishop has no power. "He is not master of the situation," admitted Father Emile Gabel, secretary of Lourdes International Information Center, and added that despite constant allegations in the anticlerical press that the church gets a rake-off from Lourdes merchants, "there is absolutely no collusion between the bishop and the city." (The church's only income from the shrine: $500,000 yearly from Grotto collection boxes and sale of religious books, all used to maintain the buildings.) As for the pious objects, "we cannot suppress bad taste," said Father...
...Robert Schlesinger, kissed the Marquis Alfonso de Portago goodbye before he raced his Ferrari off to death in last year's Mille Miglia in Italy. Linda learned a lot, but last week she proved she was still no match for Brazil's brand of sportive millionaires, who rake in profits of 30% or 40% a year, laugh at income taxes and still have time to dream up practical jokes...
...like smoked-down cigarettes, a West Coast lad named Jimmie Rodgers currently enjoys unanimous popularity. Jimmie is one of the hottest new singing properties in the trade. Without the benefit of Elvis' sweaty circumvolutions or Pat Boone's white-buckskin charms, 24-year-old Jimmie figures to rake in $200,000 this year. The charge that propelled him to success, a ditty called Honeycomb recorded several months ago for a small New York label, hymns in strongly rolling accents the wonders of birds, bees and matrimony. By a mysterious chemistry that even the song pluggers do not understand...