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Down from the rocky ridges and snow-choked gullies the guerrillas straggled last week. Some were barefoot, some wore slabs of leather tied about their feet with string. Two Greek government forces, catching the rebels in a pincers northwest of Mt. Olympus, had driven them up the slopes of Mt. Pieria, up beyond the snow line. There the guerrillas' food gave out. Some ate their mules. By week's end, after a month of fighting, over 800 had been captured or had surrendered. They left the corpses of about 800 more behind them on the heights...
...Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 (Guilet String Quartet; Vox, 8 sides). Brahms, writing of this unusually sparkling quartet to Violinist Joachim, boasted: "You probably did not credit me with such finesse." Performance: good; recording: fair...
...door opened again. "One minute, Mr. Hickey." Ed Macauley, the string-bean (6 ft. 8 in.) center who is probably 1948's best college basketball player, nervously wiped his ashen face. "And remember," said the little man, "conserve your energies on offense. You can't rest on defense." The boys bounded up from the benches; clapping and shouting, they moved into a huddle. Hands piled on hands, players and coach recited a Hail Mary at abracadabra speed, ended it: "Mary, Queen of Victory, pray for us." Then Edgar Hickey and his St. Louis University Billikens were ready...
Students may come and go, and to those who intend to go home for the Easter recess the railroad companies send their blessings. Despite John L. Lewis and his string coal-miners, trains will be leaving regularly today and tomorrow...
More than a third of the babies who roam the Clinic's spacious quarters, which formerly housed a Russian War Relief center and a various string of restaurants, are less than a year old. Two 13-year olds used to be on the list but a lack of proper facilities has since forced the Clinic to set a 12-year age limit...