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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchestra (to 100 pieces) and a fund for at least one foreign tour a year. The Halle Concert Society was glad to pay. It was a bargain to keep the man who in five years hac hammered and planed their famed but disintegrated 91-year-old orchestra back into top shape-and who, incidentally, hac salvaged his own career in the doing...
...with his Manhattan misfortunes "over the dam," Conductor Barbirolli says, "I'm on top of the world." He likes Manchester: "There is not much social life. It gives you time to work." He concentrates on young people, tries to convince them "that it's jazz that's sissy and the real he-man stuff is Beethoven and Bach." One-third of his audiences are 18 or under. Says Barbirolli: "If Frank Sinatra can have his bobby-sox brigade...
...Kilter. On top of these burdens, Congress cut taxes by $4.8 billion. In the sense that the cut put extra cash in the hands of consumers to spend, that also proved to be a burden on the economy. Retail sales started up again. The businessmen of good will-such as International Harvester's Fowler McCormick-who had cut prices in hopes of starting a healthy downtrend all around, had to change course; they put prices up again. The hope had been that the U.S. would be able to add the burdens of ECA and rearmament without more inflation; that...
...Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back from buying a work dress in a country store; and in a letter quoted from a lady of Chaucer...
House League basketball bounced along in the established rut as it moved into its pre-exam series, Dudley beating Adams, 46 to 41, and Lowell coming from behind to top Winthrop, 41 to 31, in the Blockhouse Saturday night...