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When a thin, high-strung little man mounted the conductor's stand in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one evening last week, the big audience applauded cordially. Igor Stravinsky peered at them through his double-lensed glasses, curved his heavy lips in greeting. Though he was standing there for the first time in twelve years, few in the audience were unfamiliar with the man who, more than any other, had bent modern music to his will...
Completing the bill is a piece called "Hideaway Girl", which has no right to be amusing, though once in a while it is. The plot, strung together like an united shoestring, concern a girl (Shirley Ross) who pinches pearls at a wedding, eludes the police, picks up a playboy (Robert Cummings) at a filling station, goes to a party at an idealized Seawanbaka yacht club, and winds up, after a good deal of dance and Provencal song, spending the night with him on his toy steamboat. This boat, a fascinating streamlined creature, rather like a cross between the Normandic...
...several employes were fired for wearing U. A. W. buttons; and 2,400 in Kansas City whose professed grievance was the discharge of a U. A. W. man for jumping back & forth across an assembly line (TIME, Dec. 28). With the Cleveland closing, the great General Motors production line strung across the nation began to topple like a row of dominoes...
Bunched at the first turn, the field strung out in the back stretch with Special Agent in front at the half mile, Sangreal at the three-quarter. Sangreal was still ahead coming into the stretch when Jockey Peters, moving up on Goldeneye, made his bid. For a split second, it looked like a camera finish. Then Sangreal weakened and Goldeneye drew away-to a six-length lead at the wire, with Sangreal second, Ariel Cross third...
...keep the total of excess reserves, which represent perhaps ten times as much in potential bank credit, within reach of the Reserve Board control. As Chairman Eccles pointed out last week, the figure is still within manageable proportions, even without the aid of sterilization. "But," added the high-strung one-time Utah banker, "we don't want to use up all our powers. We should hold some in reserve...