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Members of the ASTP units will produce a musical play without a title some-time in February. A satire on the life and manners of an ASTP student, it was written by S/Sgt George Avakian, Pfc Sol Chofkin, Cpl Robert Glauber, who will direct the show, and Pfc George Reim...
Nobody has ever played the game of U.S. concert management with a shrewder gambler's eye than pudgy, Russian-born Sol Hurok of Manhattan. Last week Hurok gambled $120,000 on one of the longest and prettiest shots of his career. She was a pert, dark-haired, 18-year-old coloratura soprano named Patrice Munsel. For his $120,000, Hurok got the rights to Patrice's concert and radio appearances for three years. On an operatic filly who has not yet run her maiden race, that was tall betting...
...extremely slow growth of a mold similar to a cheese mold. But plans for expanded manufacturing facilities and experiments on new processes hold out hope for an increase in the supply. In recent months the leading producers have increased their output more than tenfold. Last week Commercial Sol vents Corp. and Winthrop Chemical Co. announced that they were building big new penicillin plants...
...expansion. But the Army kept asking for more, and still more Freon. WPB tightened up. Kinetic now has under way another 75% plant expansion. But for the next six months, at least, civilians who want Freon for "comfort cooling" will do without. Notable victims: Price Boss Prentiss Brown, Congressman Sol Bloom, whose office air conditioning was cut off fortnight ago when the Freon leaked...
...Stravinsky to conduct his own Petrouchka, Vera Zorina to glamorize a new ballet called Helen of Troy. But the real balleto manes, who study pirouettes and entre chats as devoutly as a prizefight fan studies left hooks, knew that the season was no great shakes esthetically. They went to Sol Hurok's ballet very largely for one little reason. That reason was a five-foot-two-inch dancer named Alicia Markova...