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...goods 6% cheaper for cash. "A misleading claim," snapped Executive Vice President Louis Broido. "Nobody can continuously undersell everybody else on everything by 6% or 60% while rendering equivalent services . . . Every thinking person knows [this] just isn't true." But Gimbels didn't quit the price marathon. "Waltz us around again Willie," sang its ads. "If somebody plays the tune, we'll dance and dance . . ." Macy's didn't get tired, either, kept cutting prices...
...birthday cakes. But the music men had a grander present: a full keyboard spinet, jointly built by the nation's leading piano manufacturers of woods, metals, ivory and wool gathered from nine of the United Nations. The President sat down, obviously pleased, and played the Little Fairy Waltz, a tinkling tune he had learned as a boy back in Independence...
Conventional student concerts usually include a fast, land overture, an isolated movement from an isolated symphony, a Stephen Foster medley, and a waltz by Johann Strauss. The inevitable "small but enthusiastic" audience consists of members of the faculty, parents of the performers, and a handful of erstwhile Babbitts searching for culture...
...Kentucky Waltz (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). With only a handful of states accounted for, it looks as though Tin Pan Alley plans to force U.S. music lovers to waltz their way through the rest of the 48. Je T'Adore (Bette Chapel; Mercury). Miss Chapel's cozy, loose-upper-plate style gives distinction to a run-of-the-mill intime ballad...
...brassy treatment of "Stars and Stripes Forever." In between, the orchestra played the usual Pops potpourri ranging from Tchaikovsky to Irving Berlin. The musicians, all members of the B.S.O., played well on the whole, with the exception of their rather lackadaisical reading of Komzak's "Girls of Baden" Waltz. The highlight of the program was Milhand's clever little Fantasy for piano and orchestra, with the young and brilliant Eugene List as soloist...