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...newsstand from month to month but one of our Massachusetts Avenue operators happened upon an item just the other day that deserves to be noised about. The issue in question runs to 52 pages, with covers, and up and down the left side of the front cover is a string of letters from which we deciphered "Harvard" and "Lampoon" without too much trouble. We were a little perplexed by all this until we turned to page three and saw there an ad for Steuben Glass. This finding may not mean much to you but we happened to have...
...Bloch: String Quartet No. 2 (Stuyvesant String Quartet; International, 8 sides). Good, but not the most brilliant Bloch. He got off to a fine start but faltered along the way. Performance: fair...
Stravinsky: Concertino and Three Pieces for String Quartet (Gordon String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Stravinsky has written little for string quartets. This alburn includes all of it. Acrid and tart, but powerful, this will make Stravinsky fans wish he had written more. Performance: good...
...String-pulling in Washington and Oregon ended the threat to the Toon's use of the mails as swiftly as it had begun, however, when "Big Bob" Handyman, postman, succumbed to an attack from a winged fleet of Ibismen...
This episode is not necessarily typical of the daily activities of all of TIME Inc.'s string correspondents overseas, but it does serve to illustrate Mary Barber's conception-in which TIME'S editors concur-of how to cover today's news in Greece. Says she: "The journalistic snake pit of Athens is the bar of the Grande Bretagne Hotel. From there one can comfortably, if inaccurately, cover the Greek story. But to get the best copy here you have to get out into the field...