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...mournful, melodious Mozart Requiem, the lusty John Gay-Christopher Pepusch Beggar's Opera, many another choice piece of music were heard last week in a Southern cotton-mill town. Rarely are such works performed in big cities. Spartanburg, S.C. (population: 32,500) is one of the smallest U.S. cities to support an annual music festival. Thanks to the present boss of the music-jawsome, 43-year-old Ernst Bacon, dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College-in the last two years Spartanburg has heard some resounding sounds: the opera Dido and Aeneas, by 17th-Century...
...Susquehanna River Bridge (see cut) between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Md. Winners in this class have often been spiderwebby suspension bridges, but no large suspension bridges were completed in the U.S. in 1940. In fact the only suspension bridge to win a prize was in the smallest class (under $250,000), the Klamath River Bridge at Orleans, in Humboldt County, Calif. Other winners this year: the Dunnings Creek Bridge ($250,000 to $1,000,000) on the Pennsylvania Turnpike; and the Oceanic Bridge (drawbridge) over New Jersey's Navesink River...
...have laid out a Rubashov meant the beginning of a great career") were GPU Inquisitors Ivanov and Gletkin. Ivanov had been Rubashov's former schoolmate, former battalion commander. He drank, he doped a little, "but the vice of pity I have up till now managed to avoid. The smallest dose of it, and you are lost. . . . The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan...
...from 5,289,972 new. cars this model year to 4,224,152 next. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which produce 90% of the nation's autos, agreed to cut their production 21.5% so that their medium-sized competitors would have to cut only 15%, their smallest competitors not at all; thus no company would be forced by quota below the break-even point. It was a good plan, with one failing: it was already obsolete...
...smallest membership, Dunster also has the largest library, numbering some 12,000 volumes, and emphasizing the social sciences. The economics and American history sections are especially strong...