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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (Alexander Schneider, violin, and Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord; Columbia, 12 sides). A first-rate sonata team making itself at home in the 18th Century. They play Mozart's melodious Sonatas in C Major, B Flat Major and G Major. (Alexander Schneider is an alumnus of the great Budapest String Quartet; brother Mischa still plays in it.) Performance: excellent...
Critic Jewell was far beyond the swooning stage. "A few of us," he warned, "incline to rate the new Picassos as little better than disastrous. . . . Picasso, in his recent oil work, may be said to paint vigorously-which isn't being really very explicit, I know. In my opinion his sense of color has grown steadily worse. . . . There remains the matter of distortion, and in that department he moves with the utmost freedom...
...substance called pitocinase, an enzyme found in a pregnant woman's blood. Pitocinase neutralizes pitocin, a mysterious pituitary hormone which seems to play a part in contracting the muscles of the uterus. As pregnancy advances, the amount of pitocinase in the blood increases at an exactly predictable rate. By measuring the concentration of pitocinase, Page determines the stage of pregnancy. His measurement method: a strip of uterus from an elderly female rat is suspended in a solution containing pitocin and a patient's blood sample. If the patient's blood lacks pitocinase, the pitocin-stimulated uterus contracts...
Logs are rolling again in Washington as industrial and agricultural groups, together with their Congressional alter egos swathed in the philosophy of Hawley-Smoot, take pot shots at the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act in general and prospective import duty rate reductions in particular. The Committee for Reciprocal Information has been informed that "lowered import duties constitute a threat to American industry, agriculture, and defense," and Senator Butler, Republican of Nebraska, has revealed that the reciprocal pacts have been "a gigantic hoax on the American people . . . solely for the benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock...
...slack years, they fell. Above all, the imports of most items have been an insignificant percentage of American consumption of that item. Woolen and worsted imports, for example, have never amounted to 2% of total U. S. consumption, and yet, the American woolen industry is strenuously opposing any tariff rate reductions on woolen and worsted imports...