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...bookish but unpretentious sort, Allen likes to play parlor word-games, cowboy pool and the snare drum, clock track meets, paint in water colors, study his fellow man on street corners, and trade ideas about everything from college-girl fashions to Jake Kramer's backhand...
...important work Stravinsky ever wrote," Professor Fine went on, The opera, which was originally a ballet, calls for a mixed chorus of 60 voices with outside soloists plus four pianos and a percussion section which includes a tympani, bass drum, xylophone, chimes, gong, wood block cymbals, bell, side and snare drums and tamburines...
...Hollywood's bad reputation for misusing talent, studios normally try hard with anyone they regard as promising. With Peck, the moviemakers were inclined to outdo themselves. Each studio needed a major male star, and Peck looked like a good risk. Moreover, since no studio had been able to snare him outright, each was determined to sweat the best possible use out of him. Peck was inadvertently handed some bum pictures; but each one was a major production. And during his first years, he had the run of a virtually clear field. Since he ran it as seriously and efficiently...
...conscious area in & about Los Angeles, the VA has footed a $3,523,385 tuition bill to date-and much of the money, says Price, was squandered. As soon as the initial glamor wore off, 4,144 would-be pilots quit without finishing their training. Radio announcing is another snare: Los Angeles stations employ only 140 regular announcers, and there is a waiting list of 475 already. And yet many ex-G.I.s are enrolled at four announcing schools in Los Angeles alone...
...with Brer B'ar, the profit picture held a snare for business generally; its riches were sure to bring increased pressure for lower prices or higher wages, or both. Yet there was little talk of lower prices. The talk-and worry-was all over higher prices. The steel industry had already started its own private inflationary spiral (see The Economy...