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Even before Fauré's death in 1924, blue-eyed Robert Casadesus (pronounced kah-sah-de-soo´) was well on his way to becoming one of the world's fine pianists. Today many swear that he is the greatest interpreter of Mozart and Ravel. Last week, to mark the centennial of Fauré's birth, he led a group of fellow French artists in a program of the composer's chamber music; the Museum of Modern Art audience of arty cosmopolitans voted it a fitting tribute and a notable curtain to another successful Casadesus season...
...were willing to break his word. The New York Times's Drew Middleton cabled that it was "the most colossal 'snafu' in the history of the war. I am browned off, fed up, burned up and put out." Fifty-four correspondents at SHAEF signed an angry soo-word protest, calling Kennedy's action "the most disgraceful, deliberate and unethical double cross in the history of journalism...
...unusual was the uneventful trip of the last ore boat to come down the Lakes. F. John Bernard Martin, 51, tall, businesslike skipper of the Benson Ford (carrying cargo for U.S. Steel because the Ford fleet has excess capacity) reported "ideal" weather on his trip from Duluth through the Soo Locks to Conneaut, Ohio, and though the Sault River buoys had already been taken in, bright moonlight made it easy for him to pick his way at night...
...problem was to lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...
...filled or emptied in six minutes. And it opens in a critical month in a critical year. A late spring delayed opening of the ice-choked St. Mary's River, whittled 8,000,000 desperately-needed tons of ore shipments. How much the MacArthur Lock increases Soo capacity is a military secret. But steelmen know the increase is enormous...