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Today he is more productive than ever (he has written six of his eleven symphonies in the past two years), and his music is more widely performed. Of his symphonies, the seventh was introduced in Baltimore, the eighth at Wilmington (Ohio) College, which commissioned it, the ninth in Green Bay, Wis., the tenth by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the eleventh will be presented by the Louisville Orchestra this winter. Cowell is no staple on major orchestra programs, but he no longer has to stage one-man shows to get his music heard...
...Before the 140th annual meeting of the North Carolina Presbyterian synod, the Rev. Benjamin F. Hall of Wilmington complained of so many special financial drives in the church today, that "I find there are only three Sundays in the year that I can preach the Gospel of Christ." The synod unanimously passed his resolution that "the absolute dedication of life and possessions to the Lord Jesus Christ . . . must underlie any Biblical system of church financing...
...black. It was a "coincidence," said he, that the syndicate that purchased U.S. Rubber stock in 1927 was made up of members of the Du Pont family. The reason was that Irénée's brother-in-law, W. W. Laird, was the Wilmington broker in the sale, and he had to find participants able to put in $1,200,000. The Du Fonts were the logical...
...revolution has been taking place since World War II. It has turned rolling farm land into acres of industry, converted flatlands into cities. In the past eight years, few sections of the U.S. have undergone more industrialization than the Delaware Valley, stretching from Trenton 60 miles south to Wilmington...
...fight to keep control of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. (TIME, April 13), President Spyros Skouras last week easily bested Proxy Fighter Charles Green, who wanted to oust Skouras. At a special meeting in Wilmington, Del. to decide on voting rules, Fox stockholders voted almost 4 to i for a management proposal to eliminate cumulative voting for directors.* Green's defeat means that he now has no real chance of putting his men on the Fox board at the regular meeting next week...