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...three-quarters of a century, the sun never set on Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. For archivists and amateurs, professors and performers around the world, England's queen-size compendium* was the first authority on the ways and means of music. But the fourth edition of Grove's (published in 1940) was much the same as the first (1878), and after World War II, London's Macmillan & Co. decided it was high time for a completely revised edition. After nearly ten years of labor-by about 500 contributors under the stern supervision of London...
Died. Edwin, David and Geoffrey Grove, young (8,6,4) sons of Edwin W. Grove Jr., patent medicine (Bromo Quinine) heir; in a fire that razed the Grove's Italian-style country home; in Northport, Me., while their mother was in Boston expecting another child...
...grandpa's seven granddaughters (Athena, Minerva. Niobe, Aphrodite, Calliope, Medea and Ceres) run a yoghurt, blackstrap and spinach-juice store, and after hours they take their eurythmics in the grove. Grandpa is delighted to meet Adam ("I liked the look of your sartorius muscle as soon as I saw you"), and invites him to a meal of peanutburgers. That night Athena sends Adam home with tokens of her love: a bag of raw vegetables and a bar bell...
TURGENEV: A LIFE (328 pp.)-David Magarshack-Grove...
Died. Dr. David Fairchild, 85, agricultural explorer who was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 species of plants to the U.S. (including the soybean, papaya, avocado), in 1905 planted Washington's first Japanese cherry trees; of a heart ailment; in Coconut Grove...