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...Died. Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, 58, famed Polish anthropologist; of a heart attack; in New Haven. He was one of the first anthropologists to study primitive societies at first hand, lived among the savages of the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea for four years, after his studies there wrote a series of books (including The Sexual Life of Savages in N.W. Melanesia) which became the most famed of his voluminous output...
...last time Bronislaw Hubermann appeared in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, someone stole his Stradivarius. It was never recovered. Finally Lloyd's of London, who had insured the fiddle, bought Hubermann another Stradivarius. With his Lloyded fiddle he appeared again last week at Carnegie Hall. Nobody stole anything...
Since he last was in the U.S., Bronislaw Hubermann's chief interest has not been fiddling but building a Jewish orchestra-the Palestine Symphony of Tel Aviv, whose players were exiled from some of Europe's finest orchestras. Close as the war has been to it, the Palestine Symphony has been less affected than any in the old world. Hubermann got Arturo Toscanini to conduct the symphony in 1937, at considerable personal risk and expense...
...Gardiner Museum, a fairly orthodox series of chamber recitals has been in progress for the past three weeks, occurring on alternate Sundays at two o'clock in the Tapestry, Room, usually featuring some concert artist. This Sunday the soloist is to be one of the world-famous violinists, Bronislaw Huberman, and following that, on November 1, Frank Glazer, the eminent Boston pianist. The opportunity to hear Huberman is a rare and exceptional one, for Huberman has in past years been known to this country chiefly through his tremendous reputation in Europe. Those who know his recording of the Tchaikowski Violin...
Refugees not from their own government but from the unscholarly din of European war are Britain's world-famed Bertrand Russell (soon to become a U. S. citizen); Ivor Armstrong Richards, now working on Basic English at Harvard; Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen...