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With understandable pride, the orchestra played a modern Dutch composition, Henk Badings' Symphony No. 2 (1932), a sturdy work that might have been written by a latter-day Brahms, its three movements definitely dissonant but never harsh. High point of the concert was Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, in which the strings provided a deep, sunset-colored perspective for the shrill syrinx tones of the piccolo, and the brasses built easily to a sweeping culmination. There were subtle orchestral colors that listeners had never heard before, but for all the music's impressionist vagueness...
...Association, unconvinced, had no choice but to appeal to the courts. They could not sue Harvard themselves, nor force the Attorney General to do so; yet their strongest feeling has been that some judicial test is necessary. The case of John S. Ames et al.V.Attorney General, therefore , is for a writ of Mandamus to compel Fingold to rehear their application according to "a proper appreciation of his own duty and the rules of law applicable to the questions involved "Meanwhile there were still quiet efforts to smooth out affairs. Two Association directors had been meeting with Harvard officials, and once...
...meat salesman, and mother of a normal five-year-old girl. The twins, who weighed about 6 Ibs. each at birth, ate normally, and woke or slept independently of each other, were united in much the same way as the famed Brodie twins (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952, et seq.) with one obvious exception: the Brodie boys faced the same way, but the Andrews girls face in opposite directions, so that when one lies on her back, the other must lie on her abdomen...
...General Walter Bedell Smith, 59, Under Secretary of State and stand-in for Secretary John Foster Dulles at the recent Geneva Conference (TIME. July 26 et seq.), became vice-chairman of the board of the American Machine & Foundry Co. in what Chairman-President Morehead Patterson called "a key policymaking role in the company...
...second time in six days, Scelba had to stand up, risk a confidence vote provoked chiefly by Communist charges that his regime had been obscuring corruption and shielding suspects in the strange death of Wilma Montesi (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.). "My conscience is completely at ease," Scelba told the Chamber. "The government has nothing to fear and nothing to hide . . . I wish the whole country would at last realize it." The Chamber stood behind him on the vote, 294 to 264, one of the solidest victories he has recorded in eight months as Premier...