Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parisians were bewildered because the monkish composer, a devout, 38-year-old Catholic, punctuates his pious music with bird calls and Hindu rhythms. Instead of repose, listeners felt spastic jerkiness; instead of exalting sonorities, they heard grinding dissonance. After a performance of his Three Short Liturgies of the Divine Presence, which is scored (among other things) for a xylophone and two dried gourds with rattling seeds, one Paris critic snorted: "African witchcraft rather than Christian music...
...vain that more than half his income came from the daily; the committee ruled that his "chief attention" was the weeklies. Lautier hoped the Senators would agree with Griffing Bancroft of the Chicago Sun, who cast the only dissenting vote and called his fellow correspondents' decision "nothing short of outrageous...
...paper in the U.S. went virtually adless last week. After J. David Stern's Record folded, the Philadelphia Bulletin (circ. 750,000) had picked up 30,000 new readers and started a Sunday edition ; its paper supply was stretched thin. Many another paper had put itself on the short est rations since...
...Jersey Standard and Socony will guarantee $102,000,000 of the loans, all three companies will share the rest.) Aramco will build a 1,000-mile pipeline from the blistering oil-rich city of Dammam to the Mediterranean: it will construct a deep-water port at Dammam, build a short railroad, install additional refinery equipment and connecting pipelines. All this, it expects, will step up production in Arabia from the current 200,000 barrels a day to 500,000, replenishing the depleted treasury of Ibn Saud by 23? for every barrel...
...Signal Corps in World War I. He caught the eye of Wallace Pratt, then Standard's top geologist, who hired Gene to work fin its subsidiary, Humble Oil Co. There Holman again impressed the right person-William Stamps Parish, Humble's president. In a short time he was made boss of Humble's Shreveport office. When Holman asked for "instructions," Parish waved a hand and said: "Just run things...