Austin Concert Group Sets Sights on Bigger City
The 1959 51 season marks the 15th anniversary of Austin's Community Concert Association, a volunteer non profit created in 1934 to support affordable top tier music. It showcased artists like Schnabel Gieseking Heifetz Menuhin and Primrose while facing renewal and funding challenges. Reorganization aims to expand reach to a larger Austin and music audience.
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Austin
Maria Jerit
Artur Schnabel
Walter Gieseking
Jascha Heifetz
Budapest String Quartet
Helen Traubel Rose Rampton
Yehudi Menuhin
William Primrose
Lois Trice
Association
Texas
Austin Smphony Orchestra
University String Quartet
Fish and historical notes mingle in a brief atlas
The text covers the male kurtus fish guarding eggs on a forehead hook, the species’ Pacific and Indian Ocean habitat, Stonewall Jackson’s bread and buttermilk diet, the 1884 Washington conference establishing Standard Time, the two year average life of a dollar bill, and sucking fish attaching to turtles and large fish per Britannica.
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Pacific
Indian Oceans
Stonewall Jackson
Washington, D. C
Long Transition From Peace to War Economy Across World Wars
A sweeping chronology traces how the United States built wartime controls from 1939 to 1945. It notes key actions by Congress and the president, including tax changes, export restrictions, the Selective Service Act, the War Production Board, price controls, and debt expansions as the nation moved from preparation to total war. Critical dates include June 1939 stockpile bill, Pearl Harbor, and early 1942 policy milestones. The piece emphasizes rapid shifts in policy and administration during the transition to a wartime economy.
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United States
Great Britain
Germany
Pearl Harbor
Europe
76Th Congress
Congress
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Department of Labor
Justice
National Guard
Senate
Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
Byron Price
War Production Board
Office of War Mobilization
Smith-Connally
Truman
Atom spy case tainted by treason trial humor
A courtroom scene with defense and prosecution sparring over bail and a six month postponement. Glancing references include Korea, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, and a Canadian release, framed by satirical verse on the home front and a note about a Florida sheriff and a soot study program.
Answers to Readers Questions in The Austin American
The column presents a Q and A feature from the Austin American Information Bureau listing inquiries on authors, presidential pension, Roman military practice, quebracho wood, and the longest interval without constitutional amendments. Answers cite James Mason Knox, state the president has no pension, explain gladius carried on the right, define quebracho wood origins and properties, and note 1804 to 1865 as the longest gap between amendments.
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United States
H.R.H. A
Russians Gaze At American Luxuries In Satire
Ex ambassador General Bedell Smith testified before the Senate that Soviet viewers misread a film satire about American life. He cited scenes of a New York tenement and an Westchester bungalow to illustrate Moscow audiences’ focus on gadgets like electric ranges and refrigerators. The piece also notes U S political money in New Hampshire races and critiques Pentagon publicity practices and Stuart Symington’s plan to consolidate wartime controls under existing agencies.
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Washington
Russia
Bedell Smith
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Gen. Smith
Soviet Union
Moscow
New York
New Hampshire
Charles Tobey
Wesley Powell
Powell
Styles Bridges
Tobey
Sen. Bridges
Truman
Ed Pauley
Sen. Tobey
Senate
Pauley
Navy
Democratic Party
David Sarnoff
RCA
Textron Company
Iowa
Sen
Gillette
Alva Adams
Colorado
Hague
New Jersey
Sen. Gillette
White House
Adams
Jack Lait On Broadway and Other 1940s Media Snippets
Excerpts discuss Kefauver for president, crime syndicate power and political influence, an excerpt from Lady Mendl’s will on cremation and memory, a weather predicting 10-foot star, and entertainment notes including Bogart Cooper contracts, Rita Hayworth fashion, and celebrity divorces.
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Warners
Humphrey Bogart
Gary Cooper
Rita Hayworth
Cannes
Alexander Shields
Alexandria
Powers
Zia
Gloria Vanderbilt
Howard Perry Rothberg
Lois Wagner
Detroit
Luchow
Fate
Mathews
Puerto Ico
Assoc Press Notice on Republication Rights
A public notice states the Associated Press content is republished exclusively by the newspaper. It outlines rights to reproduce focal news and select exclusive portions across publications within the republication agreement.
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THE
Associated Press
Assccisted Press
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Fuchs
Florida
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Howdy Sooty
Gypsy Rose Lee
Austin American Information Bureau
Eye Street
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Paraguay
Argentina
Drew Pearson
Pentagon
Defense Department
Public Information Office
Department of Defense
Red River Arsenal
OPA
Stuart Symington
National Security
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Weather Bureau
Labor Department
Agriculture Department
Symington
Mell Syndicate, Inc
Jack Lait
Broadway
Kefauver
Tennessee
Lady Mendl
Esse de’ Wolff
Mutual Life
55Th
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Archduke Franz Joseph
Abe Feder
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