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Last week Sir Thomas was helping Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera make a smashing success in Chicago. Said the Chicago Tribune's discriminating Claudia Cassidy of Sir Thomas' Faust: "Its most persuasive points were Beecham's energetic pursuit of the beauty and brimstone of Gounod's imperishable score. . . . Sometimes the result was so delightful you wished the stars would stop singing." Throughout the winter Sir Thomas has been one of the chief ornaments of the Met's conductorially brilliant season on its home grounds. Between times he has galvanized the young, awkward Brooklyn Symphony into...
...Since its birth, Dec. 5, 1941, the Chicago Sun has had a pile of woe. But its greatest weakness has been a lack of one of the basic requirements of newspaper success: high morale on the staff...
Britain and the U.S. The success or failure of any such plan would lie in basic economic and political world conditions. The condition of Britain after the war will be of critical importance. Britain bore the economic brunt of armament long before the U.S. Before the passage of Lend-Lease, England saw her gold stocks reduced from $2 billion to $152 million. Foreign investments and other assets were reduced from about $15 billion to about $10 billion. Much of her merchant fleet has been destroyed. She has been building up an increasing indebtedness, chiefly in short-term balances, with such...
...success of Will Calloway Grant, 36, of Chicago, is the current sensation of the U.S. advertising business. Few weeks ago one rival ad salesman grew so envious that he started a rumor that Grant Advertising Inc. owed its vertical rise in gross billings to such dubious practices as taking split-commission contracts.* Grant's answer was typical-and, as usual, irritating to the rest of the secretive advertising world: last week an auditor was going over his books right back to the day when he got his first account. Grant then blandly-and publicly-suggested that the entire industry...
Ulen had had good success in his fourteen years at Cambridge, although victories over Yale have been few and far between. Only twice have the Crimson mermen dunked the Elis in the Ulen regime...