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...when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else in the background...
Three years ago, Violinist Jascha Heifetz asked Composer Walton to write him a violin concerto. Last spring Composer Walton delivered the completed manuscript at Heifetz' Connecticut estate, and last week in Cleveland Violinist Heifetz, with fidgety Artur Rodzinski's streamlined Cleveland Orchestra as background, gave the new concerto its first performance. Well-woven as a Paisley shawl, Composer Walton's opus proved warm as well as intricate. And though Cleveland's dowagers found its texture scratchier than crepe, Cleveland's critics fingered its solid warp & woof with enthusiasm. Said Clevelander Rodzinski, rolling a long cigaret...
...series of isolated scenes. Even this impressionistic, kaleidoscopic technique might have created a unified effect had the production staff been able to set and maintain a snappy pace. But many of the scenes were punctuated with lengthy pauses, the sense of continuity sinking further and further into the background with each succeeding second of inactivity...
...last year or so, the Varsity squash racquets team has been pushed into the background--a fate especially undeserved for a sport which enjoys such tremendous popularity among students and which has produced so many Crimson National Champions in past years. There are 71 squash courts scattered over the campus which are filled almost every hour of the day by a vast army of racquet enthusiasts. And even in loan years Harvard teams have not failed to be up near the top in Intercollegiate circles...
...Four-Part Setting - Ann Bridge -Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Peking Picnic, this sophisticated romance, with a Chinese background, stands out for its deft handling of romantic problems among the British embassy...