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Begun in 1915 and completed in 1923 for Diaghilev, Les Noces ends the series of "barbaric" ballets that includes L'Oiseau de Feu, Petrouchka, and Le Sacre du Printemps. Like the others, it embodies Russian folk spirit, according to Stravinsky. It is a setting of peasant remarks, mostly cliches, appropriate to a wedding: "Mother, brush my tresses"; "glory to the father, glory to the mother"; "to the wedding, to the wedding...
...fully under way for eight more months, the casualty list released last week showed that roughly 25 shows are already condemned. Sing Along fans will have to warble commercials next year; NBC has dismissed Maestro Mitch and the gang. NBC has also condemned The Joey Bishop Show, Du Pont Show of the Week, Espionage, The Richard Boone Show, Hollywood and the Stars. The Andy Williams Show, Bell Telephone Hour, Grindl and The Eleventh Hour are all hanging by a nerve end and all are likely to fall...
...Canon Kir is a Gallic equivalent of the late Fiorello La Guardia-a Napoleon-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) "autocrat" with no inhibitions. In his normal dress of beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back to a firehouse, borrowed...
...small New Jersey roller-bearing plant. In 1916 William Durant, the flamboyant founder of General Motors, bought out Sloan, who became a G.M. executive. Only four years later, when Durant was forced out for speculating in G.M. shares, Sloan had shown such a flair for organization that the new Du Pont management made him executive vice president. In 1923 he became president...
From the time the Du Ponts took over, Sloan and G.M. were inseparable. He took hold of the seemingly unmanageable collection of divisions, some of which hid their cash from the others, and shook hard; he brought order out of chaos, and thus geared the company for a growth that hardly anyone else foresaw. He instituted G.M.'s famed-and often copied-system of "decentralization with coordinated control," emphasized selling autos on the installment plan, and set up G.M.'s first efficient auto-dealer system...