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Berg: Lyric Suite (Galimir String Quartet; Vox-Polydor, 8 sides). In this suite, one of his last works, the late Alban Berg (TIME, May 31) put his teacher Arnold Schonberg's theories to test, came up with perhaps the best work yet composed in twelve-tone technique. That still doesn't make it very listenable to ordinary unpracticedears. Performance: excellent. Recording : excellent...
...shipping department of Peter Keevil & Sons, Ltd., London wholesale provisioners, a worker named Jack Bryant found his cigarette lighter empty. Cleverly, he lowered a small medicine bottle on a string into the fuel tank of a company truck, pulled it out full of red gasoline, and replenished his lighter. (Britain's Labor government has decreed the red color for all gas used by commercial vehicles, for easier detection if it leaks into the black market...
Medicine v. Mozart. U.S. music fans have heard Boyd Neel's orchestra only on records, if at all. Last year his 21-piece string group crossed the U.S. en route to Australia, but they flew across the U.S. in silence on a world tour, with their instruments in bond...
Healthy Profit. Moving to California, Hoiles bought the Register, doubled its circulation, became the richest man in Orange County as he added one profitable paper after another to his string...
...couple spent most of their time in Britain, where they lived in lush disregard for austerity. The Maharaja lengthened his fabulous string of race horses (estimated to be worth $1,000,000), built a chromium-studded training establishment atop Warren Hill, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (despite local indignation over this use of scarce building materials...