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Reconversion. In Dublin, N.H., in the widely popular "Swoppers" column of the magazine Yankee, one advertiser offered the Harvard Classics for a shotgun, another the complete works of Balzac for a .22 automatic pistol...
George Bernard Shaw, Irish advocate of a phonetic English alphabet (see EDUCATION), decided to give Eire his early manuscripts. Dublin had asked for them, and "as an Irishman I regarded that request in the nature of a command." It was no Christmas present, said he, for "I don't have anything to do with Christmas. I'm a civilized human being...
Since its first performance at Dublin in 1742, Handel's "Messiah," although recognized as one of the greatest pieces of church music, has, only through its association with Christmas, survived the fate of his other works so long relegated to the limbo of forgotten music. Only Bach has escaped the dense fog of obscurity that surrounds almost every composer before Haydn. It is lamentable enough that such acknowledged masters as Palestrina, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Boccherini should be worshipped from afar but rarely heard in American concert halls...
...announced that it will continue to carry passengers to Shannon, Eire, for $247. Passengers must find their own way from Shannon, near Dublin, to London (they could go by plane twice a week if they were lucky, or by taxi, bus, boat and train-a trip which sometimes takes two days). Twice a week, Pan Am will fly all the way to London but has not yet set the fare. Furthermore, said Pan Am, it will soon start flying to France at fares comparable to the $275 rate...
...Almanac's first 54 years its proprietor was Robert Bailey Thomas, a Massachusetts stationer. For its last five, it has belonged to 45-year-old Robb Sagen-dorph, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Harvardman ('22) who lives rustically at Dublin, N.H. During the war, while he worked for the Office of Censorship, he kept his hardy perennial going by working on it nights and Sundays. It was worth his while: the 1946 print order is for 450,000 copies, almost double its previous printing...