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Offstage a solemn and fastidious artist who speaks seven languages and boasts an honorary Ph.D., The Great Grock spent hours and years polishing and perfecting the details of his performance. But he never tampered with its essential ingredients, which were as simple and absurd as life itself: a tiny fiddle produced from a monstrous case, the almost miraculous discovery that it is easier to push a stool toward a piano than it is to push a piano toward a stool, his look of ecstatic appreciation at a single sour musical note produced all by himself. In such endless re-enactment...
This week the royal grandmother, joining in the observance of Columbia University's 200th anniversary, donned a black cap and gown and marched with another touring VIP, Germany's sturdy old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in a solemn convocation at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Awarding her an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, Columbia cited her as more than a queen. Said the citation: "A gifted musician, accomplished linguist, and understanding student of the arts...
...justice not only to the people of Illinois, but to the United States of America," James A. Reed once counseled, when the upper Chamber was considering the expulsion of one of its members. Today at noon the Senate convenes again to do justice and exercise its rare and solemn power: the right to discipline a Senator...
...solemn setting of the special censure meeting, the Senate might have forgiven McCarthy--the Senator--in spite of the Committee recommendations. But the assembled group of solons is considering McCarthy the man, and McCarthy has followed his expected form by abusing the fellow Senators who might have given him a lenient hearing. In doing so, he has flopped from his celestial altar. Although Senators are willing to believe the world has gone to hell, they will scarcely allow a colleague to insist they are a lynch party driving it there...
...Before a solemn London court of inquiry last week, British science told the world, without excuse or coverup, what happened to Britain's proudest airliners, the ill-starred jet Comets. The inquiry was ordered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill when two Comets exploded over the Mediterranean early this year. Since then, the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, headed by Arnold Hall, has been working night and day on a job of detective work that may be the most elaborate in technological history...