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...close of the 1936-37 season last spring, Manager Specter and his socialite executive board set out to get 1) a stout purse, 2) a first-rate conductor, 3) top-notch musicians, announced a drive for $300,000, proposed to import seven well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Cruel. The usual fate of such intentions has seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama...
From now on all forms of athletic endeavour, from lowly cross-country to highly-touted football, will become less and less dependent on the haunting specter of insufficient gate receipts; envisioning a not-too-distant future when sports-for-sports-sake wil bring true the dreams of all exponents of simon-pure athletics...
...President called forth a grim specter by his consistent policy of warring on industry, and unless his whole attitude and the attitude of his Administration undergo a drastic change and unless Congress reasserts its independence we will be in the midst of a more terrible depression than we have yet known...
...conviction of his father's innocence and depraved by the lust for revenge; the judge, driven periodically mad by flitting shadows of remorse; and the three guilty men, one the brother of the young man's sweetheart, another a tubercular killer, and the third a bloody, slimy, bullet-pierced specter. The cataclysm that follows is as staggering as so highly explosive material permits...