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Beginning with the depression in Handel's life--the period at the age of 37 when his fame and fortunes were at their lowest ebb--the film climaxes in the composer's intensive work on his masterpiece, the "Messiah," which was completed in less than a week, and returned him to the good graces of his adopted compatriots when it was produced in Dublin...
...cried Socialist Harold J. Laski in 1940. The British professor, making a routine denunciation of the Bank of England (much as a New Dealer attacks Wall Street), hoped then that "the reign of Montagu the Norman" would now "ebb peacefully to its close...
...Creative force is at a low ebb in the money markets and willingness to take risks has practically disappeared. This is especially the case in New York where the big commercial banks have become hardly more than morgues for Government bonds and cash. The half-dozen or so investment banking houses that euphemistically call themselves the 'majors' have developed a positive phobia about taking normal business risks...
...Lowest Ebb...
...draft Tom Dewey at next year's G.O.P. convention. Reason: he could not afford to turn the state over to a Democrat. Such a result would also give Democrats a chance to boast that the Republican tide which set in last year with Tom Dewey has begun to ebb...