Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accented Rests. George Antheil is a cello-sized man with blond hair and childlike blue eyes. He was born 43 years ago in Trenton, N.J. where his father still runs Antheil's ("A Friendly Shoe Store"). An infant prodigy composer and pianist, George went to Europe at the age of 20, and stayed there for nearly 15 years. During his expatriation, he concertized widely, married a niece of Austrian Playwright Arthur Schnitzler. His eccentric compositions such as Ballet Mecanique, written for an orchestra of sixteen mechanical pianos accompanied by the whirring of electric motors, made him Europe...
Ceiling Hitter. In New Orleans, shoe rationing officer M. J. Leumas was warned to enforce price ceilings by a woman who protested that while she used to get shoe-ration stamps for 50?, the price had now risen...
Rubber and Candy. Until four years ago, Cummings was doing well as a candy and biscuit maker. Born in St. John, N.B., he went to work at 14. Later, he became his father's partner in a shoe store, branched out into shoe wholesaling, added a sideline of rubber importing...
...sold out his rubber and shoe interests and bought control of McCormick's, Ltd., a candy and biscuit maker of London, Ont. Within three years he was fighting British-controlled George Weston, Ltd. for the Canadian market. Upshot: Weston bought McCormick's, Ltd. but kept Cummings...
...books are almost as numerous as Egyptian dynasties. Fortnight ago she published No. 22. But Fannie herself is a more absorbing character than any she ever created. Born in Hamil ton, Ohio, 54 years ago, she was taken in infancy to St. Louis, where her father owned a shoe factory. She began to write early, at 14 had submitted a masque in blank verse to the Saturday Evening Post...