Word: c
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schumann: Fantasia in C (Rudolf Firkusny, pianist; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). One of Schumann's greater works, played with poetry and power by a 37-year-old Czech pianist who is one of the best of his generation. Recording: good...
Detective methods had to be used to keep track of the four patients, all seamen. The detecting work was done by Dr. John F. Mahoney, who retired last week as medical director of the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, U.S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., Dr. Richard C. Arnold, his successor, and Serologist Ad Harris. For the first few months after treatment, the seamen had been kept ashore, and on call. But for almost two years of wartime service they were all over the bounding main and in many a disease-ridden liberty port...
...hand that leveled an accusing finger at the S.R.L. looked as if it held a fat blue pencil of its own. Last October, the Nation had commissioned Yale Law Professor Fred Rodell to write an article on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harold C. Field, executive editor of the Nation, told Rodell he was delighted with it. But later he said that he and Freda Kirchwey, Nation editor & publisher, wanted a few changes made, notably in Rodell's criticisms of Justice Frankfurter...
...heaviest (7 lbs.) and most expensive ($30 a copy) magazine on the market. It was also one of the least popular; only 3,000 copies of the bimonthly current (and sixth) issue were printed. Last week 30-year-old Publisher Malcolm Forbes, son of Forbes magazine's B. C. Forbes, announced that Heritage had died, leaving no heirs...
...many a businessman the latest increase, smaller than the preceding three, was hardly a surprise. But in Washington, it stirred up Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, who had not been at all critical while the Steelworkers were after their wage boost last summer. Cried he: "The steel industry is not justified in levying an increased tax on the whole economy of the U.S." Its leaders, he said, are doing more damage "to the free-enterprise system than all the crackpots have ever done." To get an explanation, O'Mahoney asked Ben Fairless to appear before a congressional...