Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victor Manusevitch's programming for the second concert of the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra was highly imaginative, but the Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a young Frenchwoman named Eveylne Crochet, made the Orchestra's contribution seem rather weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only...
...varsity performers were named to the second team. Fullback Thomas L. Morgan '61, an extremely fast defender, and Tadhg Sweeney '61, a hard charging lineman, were the Crimson men so honored...
...balloting, which was by proportional representation, Stevenson received nearly 60 per cent of the first place votes. After a correlation of first, second, and third place votes, Stevenson far outdistanced Senator John F. Kennedy '40. The leading candidates, and the percentage of the total adjusted voting strength behind them, are: Adial E. Stevenson 42 per cent John F. Kennedy 23 per cent Hubert Humphrey 13 per cent Stuart Symington 6 per cent Lyndon Johnson 6 per cent...
Discipline. To see what could be done, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns journeyed to Hong Kong fortnight ago. Said Kearns to a meeting of Hong Kong garment leaders for the second time in a year: "Don't reduce your exports. Just don't ship unduly heavy quantities which would wreck a specific American industry." To many a successful Hong Kong Chinese garmentmaker, voluntary curbs seem to be a high price to pay for a success built with little U.S. aid in the face of stiff Japanese and European competition. Many are balking, though Lee argues that...
...SECOND WORLD WAR, by Winston S. Churchill and the Editors of LIFE (615 pp., 2 vols.; TIME Inc.; regular edition, $25; deluxe edition, $27.50), combines the best of Churchill's sonorous prose from his six-volume history of World War II with some of the greatest war pictures and paintings ever brought between covers. The result, an excellent piece of bookmaking, anatomizes and dramatizes the greatest of wars. Included in the deluxe edition is an evocative recording of some of Churchill's wartime speeches...