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Milstein has only one eccentricity: a method of remembering telephone numbers. He thinks of the digits from one to nine as positions on the G string of his Stradivarius, thus translates each combination of numbers into a melody. Then he has only to remember the exchange-and the melodv...
South Carolina-born, 2201b. Robert Henry Best served in the U.S. Army in World War I, later studied journalism at Columbia University. In 1923 he won a $1,500 Pulitzer traveling scholarship and went to Europe, never to return. He served the United Press as Vienna string man (space-rate writer), then as Vienna staff correspondent for years. He became something of a Vienna figure-his wretched German, his broad-brimmed Stetson hat, his high-laced shoes, his corner seat in Vienna's Cafe Louvre, his troubles with women (for some time he lived with a supposedly sinister elderly...
Shostakovich: Quartet, Op. 49 (Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 4 sides). Like Shostakovich's 8th Symphony, written at about the same date, this quartet bristles with crackling rhythms and ingratiating tunes...
...thing is certain: New Jersey Zinc's plants in its home State, Pennsylvania, and the West are all-out for war. Biggest wartime zinc need is for millions of shell cases, which the U.S. specifies must be 30% high-grade zinc, 70% copper. Then comes a string of zinc alloy castings for trucks and aircraft (fuel pumps, carburetors, door handles, etc.), die-cast gun sights, shell fuses and fire pumps, galvanized ship plates, sanitary equipment and plain tin roofs. Atop this are zinc oxide for paint, tires and medical supplies, "spiegeleisen" (mirror iron) for steel furnace purification, zinc dust...
HANOVER, N. H. Feb. 7--With the great Dartmouth line of Riley, Rondeau, and Harrison scoring six goals to celebrate Captain-Coach Dick Rondeau's return, the Dartmouth six ran its unbeaten string to 29 straight in the Davis Rink Saturday night, winning 7 to 4 at the expense of of a fighting Harvard sextet...