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Strictly Business. Perched on his high stool at rehearsals, Conductor Reiner is strictly business. In quiet passages the tip of his baton ticks off the beat with the precision of a stop watch, in fortissimo it slashes the air like a rapier. When a phrase is not up to snuff, he raps sharply for silence, speaks quietly but in a no-nonsense tone, e.g., "I would suggest you play that adagio." When he is pleased, he warms the players' spirits with quick nods of approval...
...back to the boy she had never dated, reasonably suggesting that they wait until he returned home before making any such decision. But last week, when asked if she would marry Ed Dickenson, she had barely opened her mouth to answer when her mother, with an angry spit of snuff juice, snapped: "No, she ain't gonna marry...
...earlier blasted U.S. ammunition shortages in Korea (TIME, June 1), took a second look at its problem-an encouraging sign in congressional-committee behavior. In its new report the committee stated that progress has been made. By May 1953, supplies of ammunition in Korea had been brought up to snuff, were adequate "to meet any contingency or emergency that may arise." At home, there are now more civilian factories producing ammunition, work is being better distributed, and low-cost producers are being encouraged. Planned production for the fiscal year 1954 will exceed the total produced during the last 36 months...
Married. Marguerite Piazza, 33, onetime Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano and TV songstress (Your Show of Shows) ; and William Condon, 45, Memphis snuff company executive, she for the third time, he for the second; in Jackson, Miss...
...keep his art up to snuff, Gilbertson constantly measures it against the few classic pieces he brought back with him from the Orient. Like them, Gilbertson's own ceramics are deceptively simple in form and subtle in color, with the kind of restrained beauty that soon outgrows the merely decorative...