Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...playing has little inwardness and no depth, but precisely because it is showy and spirited, it goes over big. An accomplished showman, Evans disdains jazz effects; instead, he scores Shakespeare richly for full orchestra, achieves a Stokowski-like splendor of sound...
...about a decade, 80% of U. S. concert business has been amiably divided between two firms, NBC Artists Service and Columbia Concerts Corp., each the result of merging several concert agencies. S. Hurok declined to be merged. Instead he made a deal with the NBC Artists Service whereby, for a commission, it books all his attractions...
...Hobart Porter, suggested selling $5,000,000 of new West Penn bonds, $2,500,000 of preferred stock. SEC told him that since West Penn's common stock amounted to only 22.9% of its $121,383,501 of capital and surplus he ought to freshen the kitty. Instead of fighting or calling it all off, Water Works and SEC traded, compromised. The $4,000,00 of new stock raises the common-stock share of West Penn's capital to 24.6%, gives the public a 5.5% minority interest in Water Works' biggest baby...
...Biscuit Eater (Paramount). A biscuit eater is a retriever who instead of fetching back game for his master to eat, eats it himself. This unsporting behavior puts the cur outside the pale. Few sportsmen will credit this sentimental tale in which the "love and patience" of two boys turn a born biscuit eater into a total abstainer and top-notch bird dog. But nearly everybody will enjoy the performances of the biscuit cater (Promise), the colored boy (Cordell Hickman), the white boy (Billy Lee) and the field trials filmed in Albany...
...using liye girls instead of books, two Yardlings, Aubrey Gould '43 and Robert Cooney '43, claim to have found the solution to the old problem of combining homework with pleasure...