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Someone swore he had heard Conductor Klemperer mutter that the new opera was dreadful. Festival authorities, however, quickly announced that Klemperer "had found the ardors of conducting too strenuous; he has gone to Switzerland to recuperate." They recalled Klemperer's physical troubles after a brain operation years ago (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946); he is still partially paralyzed, and can play the piano only with his left hand. Yet Klemperer conducted a concert in Interlaken two days after walking out of the rehearsal, and he is scheduled to return to Salzburg to conduct a Mahler symphony this week...
...Strenuous Life...
Although the crew season, is a fait accompli--with the Varsity well established as the best in the country in the 2,000 meter sprints and its component parts, seattered to indulge in less strenuous, summer aquatic activities, Harvard rowing is not yet a dead issue...
...Washington. After six years of wartime exile, 5,500 Daughters of the American Revolution descended on Constitution Hall for their 56th annual convention, filled up the hotels, overflowed into most of the department stores, antique shops and restaurants, eddied discreetly into cocktail lounges. Then they settled down to the strenuous business of recording their views on national affairs and electing a new president. First came the resolutions. The ladies were against: world government (though "earnestly in support" of world organization), Communism, immigration, federal aid to education (as an invasion of states' rights) and radio shoot-'em-ups. They...
...prescription ready for the whole nation: take it easy, get enough sleep and recreation, develop a sense of humor. That way, he thought, the insatiable spirit can be kept from tearing the fragile flesh to pieces. Chicago Heart Specialist Louis N. Katz, who thinks even card games are too strenuous, went further: "Never try competition-not even with your own golf...