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Back of the musicians' disgruntlement lie two older controversies: 1) management's plan to give a pension to wartime Conductor Willem Mengelberg, who played for the Nazis and now lives in exile (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), and 2) the desire of Socialists to take the orchestra out of private hands and put it entirely in the hands of the city. At week's end, although both sides were talking things over, the distinguished old Concertgebouw was still out of business...
...civilian life and would be mobilized only in an emergency. Said Ike pointedly as he left: "Great social gains remain for all of us to attain, but they can only be attained in an atmosphere of security." Dutch officials supposed the observation was directed especially at Socialist Premier Willem Drees, who is more interested in social progress than in rearmament...
...differs sharply from Frankfurter's. It is not the expressionists, Barr maintains, but the abstractionists who have the ball. Among Barr's choices were paintings by Jackson Pollock, who dribbles paint onto his canvases from above to create what Barr calls "an energetic adventure for the eyes," Willem de Kooning, who gets equally helter-skelter results with a brush, and Arshile Gorky...
...visit to Tombstone, Arizona's hell-roaring town of the early 1880s ... I read in TIME of April 3 that I was dead. ("Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon.") It was an interesting discovery, but one to which I am not unaccustomed...
...persuades scientists and amateurs to write at his low (now 3? a word) rates instead of sending articles to the wealthier National Geographic (TIME, May 23). Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon...