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...More Talk. The Whitney-White choice, Fendall Yerxa, is a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), lean and dedicated career journalist, who broke into the game a year after Hamilton College on the now-defunct Minneapolis Journal in 1938, went to the Herald Tribune postwar as a reporter after a four-year combat hitch as a Marine Corps officer. He was raised to city editor in 1952, left the paper in 1955 to become executive director of the Wilmington Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (combined circ. 101,468), both owned by Christiana Securities Co., a Du Pont holding company. With...
...After four years of vigorous "cultural exchange." U.S. audiences last week had their first chance to hear a Russian symphony orchestra and to compare it with what they know at home. Occasion: the start in Manhattan of a 20-city tour by the Moscow State Symphony, one of Russia's two major symphony orchestras (the other: Leningrad's Philharmonic...
...kind of tumultuous reception they have encountered everywhere on their three-month odyssey through Europe and Israel. Said one Tel Aviv critic: "This is the best thing we've had from America." It took a while for the quartet to prove its class to European audiences. Although the four members-Cellist George Sopkin, 44, First Violinist Leonard Sorkin, 43, Second Violinist Abram Loft, 38, Violist Irving Ilmer, 40-had toured the Continent briefly two years ago, they found on this trip that Europeans are still apt to think of Chicago as a breeding ground of gangsters rather than musicians...
...struck," said Geneva's Le Courrier, "by the extraordinary ensemble of these four musicians who have come from Chicago with something other than corned beef in their suitcases." Wrote Amsterdam's Het Vrije Volk: "The highest praise can scarcely suffice . . . They have made us aware that along with the harshly materialistic, there is another America." In Braunschweig, West Germany, the Goslarsche Zeitung critic ran out of superlatives: "How can one write criticism when the whole evening was without a flaw?" Acclaim awaited the quartet in small towns as well as big: In Sweden's Malmo...
...Labor Day, 1,388 animals (mostly dogs, but including 187 cats) had been shot (more than 200 last week) on the suspicion that any animal at large might be rabid. That the suspicion was justified was shown in a check of 48 stray dogs picked up at Calexico in four days: 29 proved rabid...