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...those who suffered through piano lessons and drillwork can catch the allusion and laugh at jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's assertion that his keyboard prowess can' from playing "lots and lots of Czerny when I was a kid." But what excitement and color come through does so painfully, in spite of Dickson's uncertain, cliche-ridden style and not because...
...Some of his anecdotes are telling and funny: Fiedler's annual conversation with the New England Provision Company before his end-of-season bash always went: "Hello Sam? Fiedler, here. It's time for that goddam party again." But others do not appear to deserve their build-up, in spite of Dickson's chatty "he told me" style. Neither the maestro nor the family and colleagues Dickson interviewed were strong on bon mots. Certain points simply beg for detail. Dickson lauds Fiedler's genuis for selecting balanced programs, yet endlessly reiterates a generality--in this case, he writes a full...
...interminable speeches. Marching in a procession of 100,000 workers down Warsaw's Krolewska Street last week, under a sea of red flags, was a group of men who used to gaze down on such manifestations from an elevated platform: the entire eleven-member Polish Politburo, hatless in spite of the light drizzle, occasionally smiling at the gaggle of photographers around them. Said one startled Polish journalist: "This is the greatest sign of renewal they could have given...
...spite of the early onslaught, Tufts didn't cave in. With the help of a few errors and poor pitching control. Tufts eked its way back to knot the score at 11-all by the top of the fourth...
Internal Revenue Statistics compiled by the House Republican Conference show that the cuts reduced the total amount of taxes paid by poorer citizens while the amount of taxes paid by the middle class remained the same, and the tax bill of upper-income citizens actually increased, in spite of the lower rates. The conference's statistics show that from 1921 to 1925, the total income tax paid in the $0-$5000 class dropped by 85 per cent: in the $5000-$10,000 class by 57 per cent: in the $10,000 to $15,000 class by 57 per cent...