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Julius Reubke: Sonata for Organ in C Minor (E. Power Biggs; Victor; 6 sides). Composer Reubke, a star pupil of Franz Liszt, died at 24. His Sonata turns out to be a pleasing, romantic work. Performance good, recording good.
Most apiarists have supposed that bees thrive only on nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods. He fed them nectar, laced with essences of fruits, fruit-tree leaves, aromatic grasses like mint. The honeyed results were...
Chief recording problem was to find readers with a pleasing voice quality, an ability to hold an even reading pace. A few clergymen filled the bill, but most recordings were made by diction-expert stage and radio people.
The core of the story is the irreducible faithfulness of Lassie, a fine female collie, for young Roddy McDowall. Lassie is sold by the boy's father, a dole-starved Yorkshireman, to a dog-fancying Duke. She is mistreated by a vicious kennel flunkey and twice breaks out of...
Project One. Henry Ford, man of one main idea, has always believed that automobiles are merely means of transportation. They should be mass-produced cheaply, without eye-catching gewgaws, and sold cheaply. He has little regard for the public's fickle taste and fashions. Once he said: "Give them...