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Friday afternoon and Friday evening in Symphony Hall, the last of this season's coreerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Koussevitzky conducting. The programme embraces Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for String Orchestra, his Adagio from the Toccata in C major. Scriabin's "Prometheus," Debussy's "Clouds" and "Festivals," and Borodin's Polootsian dances from "Prince Igor...
...your editorial Hamlets. Not that he lacks any of Editor Crowninshield's sensibility and finesse, or his modernity in things aesthetic. But Publisher Nast is more practical. For some time he was advertising, then business manager of Collier's Weekly. He now has a string of publications of his own.* His polish is as that of hard ebony beside the soft silk of Mr. Crowninshield...
...Register's temporary eschewal of lurid headlines loses the sheet no circulation, editors elsewhere are likely to grunt: ''Oh yes, in Des Moines," and continue to await the arrival of another Leopold-Loeb attraction for their display columns. Indeed, even the Des Moines Register tied a string to its promise. It reserved the right to print on its front page during the test week "any story of outstanding criminal importance...
...String. Two months ago, the Germans surreptitiously handed Foreign Secretary Chamberlain a string labelled: "German Security Proposals." Mr. Chamberlain pulled...
Weight. At the other end of the string, was a German offer to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression in a treaty between Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany (TIME, Mar. 16). The offer tacitly agreed to abandon any claim to Alsace and Lorraine, and was in the nature of a frank recognition of the status quo. The Eastern frontier (i.e., the German-Polish-Czecho-Slovakian boundary) was specifically left for final settlement through arbitration...