Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Columbia University Professor Jacques Barzun is an earnest and erudite man who inclines with all his heart toward the second view. The result of his fervent admiration is a two-volume study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century (Little, Brown; $12.50), the most careful, comprehensive biography of a composer and his period since Ernest Newman's monumental four-volume Life of Richard Wagner...
...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 came to a close...
While the specialists worked furiously, traders' watched the magnified ticker tape flickering across the screens at the four corners of the great room to catch the flash on the price. Not till ten minutes later, a long time by Wall Street's split-second standards, did the tape flash, the first sale-and bring a roar of approval from the floor. The sale: a 25,000-share bloc worth $2,243,750 was sold for 89¾, up 2¼ points from the previous close and within an eyelash of G.M.'s all-time high...
...Jackie Robinson Story (Eagle-Lion) tells how the Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman struggled to make good as the first Negro to play openly in big-league baseball. It might have been a powerful movie stating the case for the U.S. Negro in terms that combined authenticity, drama and the irresistible appeal of an underdog's courageous fight to ultimate triumph. Fumbling, overtactful treatment has reduced it to considerably less. But the emotional potential of the film's raw material is so high that no ineptitude by the producers can keep the sparks entirely off the screen...
...kidnaped by Russian agents even before the big food companies steal his Nutro formula, and turn it to a fast buck with Piksnak ("why bother with that old-fashioned picnic lunch-basket") and Sportnutrine ("attached to the belt . . . in a handy metal kit") and Quik-Meal ("the two-second lunch for America's busiest executives...