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...Smack. In Sand Lake, Mich., John W. Vos, suddenly remembering that he had not kissed his wife goodbye, turned back, collided with a car driven by his wife rushing to overtake...
Using all the tricks of variation he likes so well, Benjy Britten had made Composer Johann Christoph Pepusch's original music barely recognizable. As the townswomen trooped onstage, Britten represented each with a different solo instrument-chilling woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances...
...Fordingbridge, England, Artist Augustus John (TIME, May 31), 70, who used to raggle-taggle among the gypsies when he was younger, ran smack into a silly technicality of civilization: a ?2 fine for driving a car without a license...
...personal friendliness could not soften the hard reality that Argentina was running out of dollars and smack into a first-rate financial crisis. Moreover, the Peron plan of exacting heavy tribute from hungry Europe for Argentine produce was beginning to backfire...
...some, it all sounded like a renewal of the feud between Giannini and FRB's Marriner Eccles, whose family's banking empire in the Rockies (TIME, May 10) stands smack in the way of A.P.'s ambitions to expand eastward. It was bigger than a personal feud. The board's complaint was unanimously endorsed by its seven members. Its result might well be a crucial test of one of the strongest Strong Men in U.S. financial history...