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Chicagoans have endured-and some have even enjoyed-some strange music recently. They have heard the sounds that Milhaud and Hindemith make, and last week they listened to the weirdest of all, the dissonant music of Austrian Arnold Schönberg, the father of atonality. The Pro Arte String Quartet worked its way through the composer's cacophonous String Quartet No. 3 and then played his familiar Transfigured Night, which he wrote in 1899, before he ran off the melodic rails. When Quartet No. 3 was over, the loudest applause came from the sixth row, where lively, gnomelike...
Yankee President Larry MacPhail promptly picked McCarthy's successor: William Malcolm ("Bill") Dickey, 38, perhaps the best catcher ever to put on a big-league mitt. He was first-string backstop when McCarthy took over the Yankees in 1931, and was still behind the plate last week. Bill Dickey was a big fellow (6 ft. 3 in.) who seldom had much to say, but a nice way of saying it. His only previous experience as a manager was in the Navy: his club won six straight against the Army in 1945's Service World Series...
...clock in the evening of May 16. At that moment, in Room 63 of the circular Council House of New Delhi, the British rulers of India voluntarily went on record before their subjects and the world with a plan-not a weasel-worded promise nor a string-tied offer, but a concrete plan-for the government of an independent, unified India...
When a wild shot knocked down the target of Edward P. Ryan, shooting for the Crimson, the referee ruled that Ryan shoot another string with his highest shot not counting...
This week Levine got a $1,000 welcome home from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of 23 awards to artists, writers and musicians as a "practical recognition" of their past achievements. Among Levine's past achievements: String Quartet, in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, a painting in the Pentagon...