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...first horn, every fiddler a shot at being concertmaster. In a typical session, one or two full-length works, preferably-modern, are gone through with all the fits & starts of a real rehearsal. Then they are played without a break. Audiences-friends of the players-are small, select...
...National Broadcasting Co. celebrated its isth birthday last week-15 years during which it has become the U.S.'s most continuously audible institution. In a new, copper-lined studio-theater in Manhattan's Radio City a select and sober audience heard two hours and 45 minutes of air festival, carried over all 243 stations of the Red and Blue networks...
Last week a Board panel, without making specific recommendations, suggested to the President that both sides be asked: 1) to agree to accept as final the recommendations of the entire Board; or 2) to choose a joint board from both sides to settle the matter; and if that failed, select an arbitrator whose decision would be flat and final. In any event, the Board proposed to exact from both sides the promise to continue production of soft coal...
...American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to boast a dozen billiard rooms and only one small church. . . . Most astonishing to Shreve were the warehouses where he had to select his furs. . . . Pelts were stacked high on every side . . . and heaped in hills about the floor, hung from rafters and bulging from the adjoining sheds...
...million words. His friend and editor Edward C. Aswell, having put the two novels into shape, got busy with the contents of the packing cases. The Hills Beyond, announced as the last of Wolfe's books, is the result. A scrupulous job of editing-"The object was to select the best, and that only"-it contains some of Wolfe's best work, and one or two old shoes besides...