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...paired on one LP. String Quartet No. 2 (1932), by Composer Virgil Thomson, is a smooth-gliding composition that would be more fun if it contained more of the surrealist ambiguity of Thomson's later style. William Schuman's five piano pieces called Voyage (played by Beveridge Webster) include two that find the composer more absorbed in the web of his ponderous sonorities than a listener ever could be; other movements titillate the ear with a kind of hectic animation...
...Daniel Webster, in the U.S. Senate
...Daniel Webster's standard, there was good reason last week for content and cheerfulness in the U.S. In a joint report, the Commerce and Labor Departments announced that U.S. employment in July reached an alltime record level of 64,995,000. This represented an upsurge of 5,000,000 jobs since February, far above the normal seasonal rise of 3,000,000, and put the number of U.S. workers on the job at a full 2,847,000 above a year ago. With average earnings of factory workers up to $1.88 an hour, 8? above a year...
Twice recently TIME has described me as an "expatriate." The word suggests, according to Webster's, exile, a withdrawal from one's native country, or a renunciation of natural citizenship in favor of another. That such an impression might apply to me is very upsetting . . . Despite frequent and largely unnoticed "commuting," I have, admittedly, been obliged by recent circumstances to spend more time abroad than at home. This, however, has not precluded me from completing more than 15 years in the U.S.N.R. (in which I was promoted less than a year ago), or from representing both private...
...first Army Package Power Reactor, a small nuclear power station that can be taken apart and airlifted to its destination, will be in operation by 1957, it was announced last week by Alco Products Inc. Alco and Manhattan's Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. will start building the $2,096,753 plant this year at Fort Belvoir, Va., where it will be used to train Army engineers in atomic power-station construction and maintenance. The reactor, housed in a vapor-tight steel shell, will turn water into steam, light 600 houses. A single charge of atomic fuel will...