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Died. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 78, lanky, white-shocked Australian-born pianist and folklorist whose fame as a serious artist and the composer of Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore and Country Gardens was equaled by his fame as a serious eccentric who often hiked to concerts carrying a knapsack, was married in the Hollywood Bowl before a delighted audience of 22,000, abhorred meat, tobacco, coffee, tea and alcohol but adored cheese, raw vegetables and a half-and-half mixture of cold milk and hot water; of cancer; in White Plains...
Although the Forum announced last Monday that Castro would use Briggs Cage, it is reconsidering the previous decision due to "the tremendous number of people who want to see Castro," John L. Samuels 2L, vice-President of the Forum, explained yesterday. Police will not allow over 2500 people in Brigg's Cage...
...seven stories of her new book, Yorkshirewoman Bentley brings off a considerable literary feat by exploring her region in time: the first story is set in 1350, the last in 1950. Place names echo and re-echo-Annotsfield, Whindale, the Ire Valley-as do the names of people: Brigg, Egmont, Resmond. Novelist Bentley succeeds in showing, as she sets out to do, that Yorkshire's West Ridinghood is persistent in the character of the tykes -whether they wield bows, shuttles or hymnbooks...
...Alderman Brigg and the new minister (suspect because he comes from the frivolous South) fight it out on the hard Calvinist line. The new man wavers on "those harsh and narrow dogmas," and the feud with Brigg is on. In the end the minister lies mysteriously dead, the peace of families has been ruined, the chapel is tern down, and a new congregation-with a softer creed has risen-and only then the reader notices that he has seen a picture of the inner life of nonconformist 19th century England...
Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60? cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's eye. Asked how he liked Composer Frederick Delius' Brigg Fair, a featured dish on Beecham's symphonic menu, Sir Thomas said: "It's a very bad piece of music. They'll like it in Cleveland...