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...their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel's Boléro; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant for the war's dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shostakovich & the Guns | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...that ro more steel strip is needed to make automobile bodies and fenders, it will be used to ease the bottleneck on steel plate for shipbuilding. Strip steel can be rolled as thick as ¼ in., and two or more thicknesses can be used where extra strength is needed. With the ten wide continuous strip mills thus converted, plate production could be stepped up from 526,000 tons a month to around 830,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts, Figures, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel's Boléro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera with Harmonica | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Harvard Varsity lineup: Penson, Sachs, g; Harbison, rfb; Taylor, lfb; Myerson, Slingerland, rhb; Clarke, chb; Mallory, lhb; Herskovits, ro; Drake, Dixon, ri; Sawhill, Calhoun, cf; Gifford, Staber, li; Poor, Berman, Matthews, Malloy, Kampner, Butcher, Darling, Truscott, Vorhaus, Killam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE VARSITY BOOTERS WIN IN FINAL QUARTER | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

...Yale Varsity lineup: Heath, g; Baker, rfb; Spaeth, lfb; Hoagland, rhb; Lilly, Wilcox, Reed, shb; Cumming, lhb; Deland, Wilson, Grurey, ro; Caulkins, Chynoweth, ri; Carrington, Anderson, cf; Hopkins, li; Haines, Keith, Dangler, Watson, Myers, Shepard, Burgess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE VARSITY BOOTERS WIN IN FINAL QUARTER | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

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