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...build the 94-man NBC Symphony, snooped around the concert halls of several U. S. cities, succeeded in luring key men from the Detroit Symphony and other Midwest orchestras. Symphonic managers all over the U. S. shivered in their boots, fearing that NBC's juicy contracts might tempt their most prized performers. Manager Alfred Reginald Allen of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra tried to placate the NBC menace by offering the loan of his players ''at any time," including his two world-famous instrumentalists-suave Oboist Marcel Tabuteau and courtly, grey-haired Flutist William Kincaid...
Last week What People Said, a 614-page, dramatic first novel, laid in imaginary Athena, Oklarada. offered the first work of fiction to tempt comparison with Middletown in Transition. On the surface Author White's Main Street still looks much as it did in Main Street and Babbitt. Like Sinclair Lewis. Author White gives no solution for Main Street's inhibiting culture, offers no antagonist capable of creating a better one. But Author White's novel carries an undercurrent, nowhere found in Lewis' books, of those acute undersurface tensions detected by the Lynds...
Intended as it was to be a primer on the profession, Senator La Follette appended to the report a glossary of such technical terms as "fink" (strikebreaker), "noble" (commander of a strikebreaking squad), "missionary" (spreader of anti-union propaganda, especially among workers' wives), "hooker" (spies who tempt workers to become spies). But the report's dynamite was a list of some 2,500 U. S. companies found as clients of detective agencies. "The list, as a whole," the report observed, "reads like a bluebook of American industry...
...Tancer and H. Victor Schwimmer, this seemed a willful omission-a plain violation of the Securities Act, punishable by fine or imprisonment. Usual procedure in such cases is for SEC to hand over its material to the Department of Justice, but Lawyers Tancer and Schwimmer felt that delay might tempt Mr. Low into Ontario where he would be unable to clarify the stock sale for SEC examiners.* Accordingly last week they had red-faced Distiller Low arrested by a U. S. marshal, and announced that they would seek an indictment at the close of the investigation...
...Bullets were still whining past at the rate of five or six a minute. "Suddenly I saw a mangy dog ambling down the avenue. Quickly I pulled out my lunch to tempt him to come closer so I could shield my head behind his flea-bitten body...