Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program, he played with great accuracy: there were fewer than a dozen slips of finger or toe--an unusually high batting average for an organ recital. Biggs chose to end with the celebrated Bach Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, which he has played thousands of times. Evidently he thought he knew it so well that it needed no advance brushing-up. The result was, to put it bluntly, a mess...
...Wellesley group, and so the play was aborted into one long act and two short ones. The effect of this was to drag out the woe-filled first act to the point of boredom. The Players tried to make up for this in a superbly done second act, and thought to leave the audience with a good going-home impression with the third. A favorable word should be added, though, for the adroit and clever setting and scene changes throughout the play...
Will the price rise be passed on to consumers? Retail competition is so tough that most steel users thought not-for the time being. They apparently intended to see how fast business picked up before they took a chance on raising prices. Said General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner guardedly: "In the face of rising costs bargain prices cannot be expected to continue very much longer...
...highest of the year. Oil companies, squeezed by depressed prices and increased costs, were still showing skidding earnings. But tobaccos were still riding high on price increases and the popularity of filter tips. General Motors, only one of the Big Three to stay in the black for the quarter, thought the worst was behind. Said President Harlow Curtice of the auto industry: "There are indications that a modest upward trend has begun...
...woman of the year. Mrs. Norman, a comely, 31-year-old divorced waitress who supports her four children, went to Houston's Metro Lincoln-Mercury Motor Co. a month ago to trade in her 1955 Ford for a newer car. She bought a 1957 blue Chevrolet sedan, thought she had signed a contract to pay $57.10 a month for 18 months. But when she checked the contract a few days later, she discovered that she would have to pay for 30 months...