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...Gopher Prairie, Minn., Sinclair Lewis' culture-starved heroine, Carol Kennicott, yearned to argue art with her energetic, flat-chested friend Vida Sherwin. For 15 minutes they debated: It's art, but is it pretty? Then Carol cried: "I don't care how much we disagree. It's a relief to have somebody talk something besides crops. Let's make Gopher Prairie rock to its foundations: let's have afternoon tea instead of afternoon coffee...
...through the uranium country in the Western states, ore has piled high outside the mines as production outsped the expansion of uranium refineries. One of the biggest stacks of ore lies outside the rich ($60 million in proved reserves) Mi Vida mine of Charles Steen, the onetime oil geologist who discovered Mi Vida when he was almost penniless, thereby touched off southeast Utah's first big uranium strike (TIME...
...been collecting at Mi Vida's portal at the rate of 15,000 to 20,000 tons monthly, now lies in heaps 40 ft. high. The sight of such idle riches disturbed Steen, so he decided to build a mill himself. Last week he signed, for his Uranium Reduction Co., a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission to build an $8,000,000 to $10 million uranium-reduction mill, the biggest...
Steen's mill, the eleventh in the nation, will go into production next summer, will refine ore (by the sulphuric-acid leaching process) from Mi Vida and other mines in the Big Indian Wash district, as well as from AEC's nearby stockpile. To finance construction, Steen will borrow $3,500,000 from New York's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, $6,200,000 from the New York Life Insurance Co., thus bring a major insurance company into the uranium business for the first time. Steen need not worry about customers: AEC will take the mill...
Falla: La Vida Breve (Victoria de los Angeles, Emilio Paya; Barcelona Opera Symphony conducted by Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...