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REQUIEM MASS IN D MINOR (RCA Victor) was left unfinished when Mozart died at 35, and Conductor Erich Leinsdorf chose it as a symbolic tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy. This superb recording was made by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with a 180-voice choir and the extraordinary, majestic drawl of Richard Cardinal Gushing, in a solemn pontifical requiem Mass in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral. Proceeds from the record sale will go to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library fund...
PABLO CASALS (RCA Victor), at 87, is still the world's nonpareil cellist, but those who care to hear how he played in his prime may find here twelve short works recorded...
Rubinstein playing Mozart's Concerto No. 20 and Haydn's Andante and Variations in F Minor (RCA Victor) is only slightly less inspired. He brings a kind of melancholy serenity to Mozart and a flashing excitement to Haydn's study in manic-depressive music; in a single phrase, his mood shifts from joy to despair...
After a two-year study of 250 major option plans, Economist John A. Menge of Dartmouth College found that during the 1950s former American Motors Chairman George Romney realized an after-tax profit of $564,000 on sales of his optioned shares, and RCA Chairman David Sarnoff pocketed $1,126,000 from his options. In the 1950s, according to Menge, these were some of the paper profits of executives who held on to most of their options: former Coca-Cola Chairman W. E. Robinson, $1,270,000; Clifford Hood, former president of U.S. Steel, $1,362,000; former General Electric...
Among corporations, General Electric holds the most (12,000), followed by A.T. & T., RCA, Esso, Westinghouse and Du Pont. The individuals who hold the most patents are also connected with corporations: Raytheon Scientist Percy Spencer alone holds 225, and Polaroid's chairman, Dr. Edwin Land, has well over...