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Cleveland is just as strong for its 55-year-old conductor. Last week the orchestra board signed George Szell to a new three-year contract...
...recordmakers; as boss of Columbia Records, Inc., he was in the midst of the battle with RCA over long-playing records. In 1949, he moved on to Mutual Broadcasting System. As president, he spruced up management, found new local sponsors, and perked up programing. By last May, when his three-year contract with Mutual (at $100,000 a year) expired, the network's billings were $3,000,000 a year bigger, and White moved over to NBC as a vice president...
...three-year college course was a strictly confined, minutely planned curriculum. In his first year the student of 1642 took Logic and Physics on Monday and Tuesday, Greek Grammar on Wednesday, Hebrew Grammar on Thursday, Rhetoric on Friday and Divinity Catechetical, History and Nature of Plants on Saturday. In his second year he studied Rhetoric, Divinity Catechetical, Ethics and Politics, Greek Grammar and Aramaic and in his third year, Rhetoric, Divinity Catechetical, Syriac, Arithmetic and Geometry, Astronomy and Greek composition. No deviation was allowed from this course of study...
...black last November, and backed by a $128 million surplus. But the good news was tempered with a startling announcement. To keep the recovery solid, said Churchill, Britain has decided to slash its defense spending by as much as 29% in the next two years; the original three-year rearmament program would now take up to five years. That announcement, made to Parliament by a less forceful Prime Minister, might well have rocked the nation's confidence. Secure at 78 in his role of jealous guardian of the nation's security, Winston Churchill made the announcement without...
...Philadelphia last week, famed Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, 63, came out of a three-year retirement to solo with the Philadelphia Orchestra. His reason: he wanted to play the world premiere of Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti's Violin Concerto in A Minor...