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Hadn't our college presidents better give sober thought to the sources of inflation which create their repeating financial crises? Not so many years ago their campuses were the spawning grounds of the theories now used as expedients for keeping a political party in office. Protected from worldly reality, our campuses have been slow to feel what fixed income individuals have long realized: inflation means creeping poverty ... It is just possible that [the colleges] are not too far advanced in their retrenchment to set up a joint institute for the study and promotion of the advantages of a stable...
Sonata No. 4, Op. 102 No. 1 (Artur Schnabel, pianist; Pierre Fournier, cellist; Victor, 4 sides 45 r.p.m.). This sober and somber sonata anticipates-but ranks with-the last great quartets. Schnabel's playing, as always, has wisdom and warmth; French Cellist Fournier can not quite match the playing of Pablo Casals in an earlier record. Performance and recording: excellent...
...keep the comedy rolling, Johnson is represented as a sober-minded young attorney employed by a law firm composed equally of legal tricksters and practical jokers. He is also pursued by his boss's daughter (Elizabeth Taylor), an amateur student of psychiatry. Krasna has fleshed out the farce idea with a curious subplot about the law firm's efforts to keep a Chinese-American tenant out of a "restricted" apartment building. The result makes an odd layer cake composed" of alternate slabs of slapstick and preachment, none of it very digestible...
...when it began an ultimate 296-point rise]." This was not as fantastic as it sounded; if the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial index rose until they sold at 15.7 times earnings-the 1946 ratio-the index would top1929's record high of 386. Said cautious, sober New York Curb Exchange President Francis Adams Truslow last week: "Barring short-term adjustments, I am sure that the trend is toward a higher level." Wall Street Analyst Thomas W. Phelps put it more sprightly: "The people who jump out of windows this time are going to be those who sold...
Sabbath Notes. In Williamstown, Mass., the committee in charge of Sunday chapel service at Williams College urged all undergraduates to 1) "be clad in coat and tie," 2) "be at least outwardly sober...