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Like most Russian composers-and unlike his fellows in capitalist countries-Dmitri Shostakovich works for a corporation. Its headquarters are a modern redbrick combination office and apartment house just off Gorki Street in the center of Moscow. It is known as the Union of Soviet Composers, abbreviated to Musfund. Its board of directors are Russia's biggest musical bigwigs, some of them composers of distinction. When Musfund wants a symphony written, it gets a composer, sets a deadline (usually about a year away), gives an advance. A good job earns fat sums. The corporation also lends the composer...
Crucial equipment has now been diverted to Reynolds. In their rambling redbrick plant last week, workmen were frantically preparing the way for an enormous 5,000-ton hydraulic press, one of the five largest in the world, originally destined for Douglas Aircraft. By late this month the monster will be working around the clock for a score of planemakers...
When John and his twin sister, Ella, were six, their mother marched them a mile and a half across the fields to the redbrick, one-room McKendree School. At 14, he and his sister drove in a horse & buggy to the modest high school in pleasant, tree-lined little Mt. Sterling. They took lunch from home, ate it in the buggy on good days, in Ed Snyder's furniture store on bad days...
Convinced that college social as well as intellectual life had "disintegrated," Lowell conceived Harvard's system of "Houses," modeled after Oxford's colleges. In 1932, with a gift of $13,000,000 from Yaleman Edward Stephen Harkness,* Harvard finished its group of seven redbrick, white-spired Georgian social nuclei, each with its own library, tutors and dining-hall...
...clue. In Washington, Joaquín Miguel Elizalde, Philippine Resident Commissioner, admitted that he was perplexed at the reports that came from the islands. Boyish, athletic Mike Elizalde gave up his suite at the Shoreham Hotel and took modest living quarters on the fourth floor of the redbrick Philippine Commonwealth Building. For Mike Elizalde, as for all Filipinos to greater or lesser degree, the change meant a test of the Filipino character as it has not been tested in 44 years...