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...Chrysler, Ford and many big parts makers on the spot. G.M. was looking ahead to the return of competitive selling, wanted no breaks in production. This week President Wilson announced that G.M. planned no price changes on its cars as the result of its new wage pattern...
...Lift for Murray. The pattern was promptly adopted by others. Two days later the United Electrical Workers' Jim Matles agreed to a similar contract for U.E.'s 40,000 G.M. workers. That fact seemed sure to have an effect on U.E.'s negotiations at Westinghouse and General Electric. Next day, the lyday Chrysler strike was over. Michigan's dapper Governor Kim Sigler dashed from Lansing to his Detroit office, where Chrysler and the U.A.W. had resumed peace talks. A few hours later, Chrysler and the union agreed on a flat 13^ increase. Ford, which had proposed...
There was very little pattern to its triumphs ; it was not a season when revivals, or musicals, or dramas, or comedies held the limelight or hogged the show. In fact, the great triumphs-the things that few who witnessed them would ever forget-were highly special ones, like Judith Anderson's overwhelming performance in Medea or Jerome Robbins' superb Mack Sennett ballet in High Button Shoes...
...which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale (the white & black keys in an octave on the piano) are arranged in a "row" in a highly formalized pattern. "Atonal" ( a term often loosely applied to Schönberg, in spite of his protests) means music in which the traditional laws of consonant chords are not observed. To most untutored ears, both sound like hell...
...immense canvas, upon which, as it stretches into darkness, we are to weave with so little skill the tapestry of our lives. The picture will never be finished and is marred by many confused, threadbare or mutilated passages, but at last and at a certain distance a Pattern will emerge which, though not of our designing, is the key and signature of Personality...