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Apples & Whiskers. Founded in 1833 by Printer Benjamin Day, the fresh, frequently sensational morning Sun was the first successful penny paper in an era of stodgy 6? dailies. In 1835, circulation climbed to a dizzying 19,000 (biggest in the U.S.) after it reported the astonishing discovery of "man-bats" on the moon. The Sun's playful hoax won it readers without losing their confidence; nine years later, it ran another famed hoax by Edgar Allan Poe about the first transatlantic balloon trip...
Unusually mild weather for the past two months has helped speed construction work on the Jarvis Field Graduate Center dormitories sufficiently to enable Benjamin Thompson, of Architects Collaborative, Inc., to say last night that the project will be complete before the August 31 deadline. Thomposon noted, however, that severe shows could neutralize the present advantage...
...Library of Congress received a gift of more than $100,000 from the wealthy, 75-year-old conductor, to be used for commissioning original compositions. The library was also establishing a Serge Koussevitzky Foundation Music Collection, consisting of manuscripts of 35 works commissioned by Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway...
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (the RCA Victor Chorale of Women's Voices, with Laura Newell, harpist; Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Benjamin Britten's settings of these Old English verses, some of them anonymous, are ingeniously simple and tonally beautiful. Performance and recording: excellent...
Nobody had to read far to find out what the announcement meant: "Subsidiaries of United States Steel Corp. have announced today new mill prices . . ." Thus last week did Big Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless give his answer to the $100-a-month pensions won by the C.I.O. Steelworkers only five weeks before (TIME, Nov. 21). Because of higher operating costs, said Fairless, the company was raising the price of steel by an average of 4%, i.e., $4 a ton. Other steelmen scurried to their adding machines to figure out new price schedules themselves. But by week...