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...Details. Most remarkable was the string playing, which created the sense of tone focus and flexibility usually found in the best string quartets. Behind the strings a pair of French horns entered every now and then with the utmost discretion, like a painter thickening his line without slowing his brush. Mozart came out very warmly indeed. When the slow movement was done, Conductor von Karajan stood momentarily with his arms dangling before his bent figure, as if to say, "How could such music possibly come...
...reason for the deer's increase is man's war on wolves, coyotes and wildcats, the deer's most destructive natural enemies. Another is the deer's adjustment to civilization. They seem to browse and thrive better in the thickets and brush at the edges of cities and cleared farmland than in dense forest. Deer have been shot by New York and New Jersey hunters within sight of Manhattan's skyscrapers...
After a slam-bang 40,000-mile dash through 17 countries, Washington's Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, still a little breathless in her mink stole and red velvet cloche, reported to a gathering of local newshens: "The Far East is sizzling." Of her near-fatal brush with rioting Vietnamese students in Saigon (TIME, Aug. 1), the lady who has often placated riotous guests with caviar and champagne confessed: "I had no idea what a mob was like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came...
...pretext whatsoever. Unlike many insignificant section men, he always knows the names, the abilities, and the problems of every student in one of his courses. His international fame constantly brings scholars from all over the world to his office, and there is no secretary there to give them the brush off. For all these people, Werner Jaeger has time. "Under the circumstances, a member of the classics Department has said, "it is wonder that he gets any work done...
...contents of a madame's memory for sexual oddities has spilled all over the book. (Incidental intelligence, which will cause lifted eyebrows in Europe: after an illicit night, it is the gentleman who makes breakfast.) There is some good recorded speech, and readers of Confidential magazine can brush up their vocabularies. Sample: "Don't panic, love-bucket . . . Get me a small martin...