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AMERICA: 1355-1364 (272 pp.)-Hjalmar R. Holand-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Last week the Met's board chairman George A. Sloan sent a gloomy letter to 7,000 season-ticket subscribers. Wrote he: "We would render a greater public service if we refuse to give opera [this winter] rather than surrender to the union the right of management to determine the number and professional competence of singing artists...
...middle of the argument the advocates of the TVA idea introduced a bill for an MVA complete with recreational facilities and government-operated power plants. That brought the Pick and Sloan advocates together. They merged their plans, and got an initial authorization ($400 million) from Congress. MVA's backers were still fighting for their idea when Pick came home from the wars. He wasted no time. With an appropriation of $32 million he went to work...
...against last year's $17,000,000. But in the future, said Juan Trippe smoothly, Pan Am would not have the services of two top officials: Thomas Alfred Morgan, board chairman of Sperry Corp. and former head of Pan Am's executive committee, and Samuel Sloan Colt, president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. They had declined to stand for re-election as directors...
...AMERICAN (337 pp.) - Howard Fast-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...