Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Kenny Wolf got what he wanted. In Chicago's Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing...
There was good news for Haydn-lovers last week: nine symphonies (of the composer's massive crop of 104) were released by three different companies. From Boston's Haydn Society, on three LP records (6 sides) came seven which are seldom heard, performed with more spunk than spirit by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Sternberg. Most interesting of the seven: Haydn's First, composed when he was 27, and his Thirteenth ("Jupiter"), which seems to reflect his happiness with his new job as musicmaker at the Esterhazys, a job he held for 30 years. Also...
...Snyder that the U.S. would not raise the official price of gold (TIME, Nov. 14), speculators apparently followed the dictum attributed to Bismarck: "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." Over the past months, the speculators went right on bidding up the price of gold stocks. Last week, President Truman pricked the speculators' golden bubble. As long as he was President, he said, the price of gold would not be raised. Next day, speculators unloaded 13,900 shares of Homestake Mining, which dropped 3½ points...
...lack of steel, Detroit's automakers were forced to lay off 37,000 more workers this week. But except for strike-born dislocations, the U.S. seemed on the mend from the recession. Employment had picked up so much that U.S. officials removed five areas from their "critical" list of places with high unemployment...
Narrowed Gap. More important, U.S. department-store sales, which had lagged woefully behind 1948, were also on the rise. For the first week in November, although still 2% under 1948 for the U.S. as a whole, they were from 1% to 15% above last year in eleven major U.S. cities...