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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Report to Uhlan: "This book is dated, dreadfully written and sentimental in tone ... I can't think of any general sales possibilities for this book . . . This is probably autobiographical fiction, since the details of military-school life are exhaustively gone into, and the author is far from inventive...
...wonderfully vivacious and satirical script was written twenty years ago, if you need to be told, by George S. Kaufman in collaboration with Moss Hart. Indulging their favorite practice of portraying well-known persons of their day, the dramatists wrote the play around the notorious, corpulent Alexander Woollcott, alias Mr. Sheridan Whiteside, a "critic, lecturer, wit, radio orator, intimate friend of the great and near great...
Mozart: Piano Music for Four Hands (Ingrid Haebler and Ludwig Hoffmann, pianists; Vox, mono). A two-album collection of six four-hand piano sonatas (plus the Andante and Variations in G Major), the first written when Mozart was 9, the last when he was 31, just before he finished Don Giovanni. The treasures here are the Sonata No. 4 in F Major and the Sonata No. 5 in C Major, Pianists Haebler and Hoffmann play them with leafy serenity, geysering wit, and a crystal touch that never grows hard or metallic...
...until the middle of June, when the young were safely hatched, did Waterston tell his proud secret. By then the young birds were almost as big as squabs on their diet of a pound of fish daily, and the written record of their family life filled 1,250 pages. Next year, if all goes well, there will be more osprey families on bonny Scotland's barbed-wire braes...
CLOSED-CIRCUIT TV will be used to sell U.S. surplus property to buyers in six big cities in October. Pentagon will sell $1.5 million in clothing, construction equipment and machine tools during eight-hour, $81,000, large-screen demonstration aimed at attracting more bidders than written descriptions...