Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...last wishes of the late Richard Strauss was that Kirsten Flagstad should be the soprano to introduce the four songs which he finished in 1948, the year before his death at 85 (TIME, Sept. 19). "I would like to make it possible," he wrote to her, "that [the songs] should be at your disposal for a world premiere in the course of a concert with a first-class conductor and orchestra." In London last week Composer Strauss's wish was fulfilled to the letter...
...moment, the Met maintained a dignified silence. It had some reason for compressing its lips; the museum had only recently reversed its standoffish policy toward contemporary U.S. art and hoped to make 1950 an "American year" to be capped by a giant, jury-picked show of about 300 paintings in December...
Peppy Walter Paepcke, 53, is one of a growing tribe of businessmen who go in for modern art. As board chairman of Chicago's big Container Corp. of America, Paepcke finds semi-abstract paintings not only enjoyable but also useful-they make eye-catching ads. During World War II, Paepcke ran a series of such full-page magazine ads celebrating the U.N. and, almost incidentally, Container Corp.'s boxes (TIME, April 30, 1945). Afterward he launched a second series on the 48 states, plus four U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Last week that four-year series...
Dividends of War. The saving factor, said Hafstad, is the much decried "military research." War and the fear of war, which transcend economics, may yet make nuclear energy available for peaceful purposes. "In fact," said Hafstad, "the history of technological development is replete with examples of civilian devices the development costs of which were borne by the military. Take such a lowly item as an aluminum saucepan. How long would it have taken to collect from housewives in dimes and quarters, the millions of dollars that have gone into the [wartime] study of the metallurgy and fabrication problems of aluminum...
...estate to department stores, thus giving income from the properties their own exemption from corporation income taxes. If New York University's new macaroni factory could thus become tax exempt, its macaroni would go to market with a tidy advantage over most of the rest of the industry, make a properly tidy return to N.Y.U...