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Bart Harvey put on another good performance on the defense, and earned promotion to the "B" team only a day after he was raised to the third string. Another wingback, Freshman Paul Lazzaro, was working out with the Varsity on the strength of his having sparked the Jay- vee touchdown drive against Andover...
...barns like Symphony Hall where the body of tone gets drowned before it reaches the audience. They were intended for private after-dinner gatherings, and the next best thing to playing them yourself is a good broadcast or recording that can fill the room with the living string tone. Even with the best equipment, a "canned" symphony loses something by reproduction. The dynamics of a quartet, however, are perfectly suited to the normal range of a loudspeaker...
Whatever may be the wartime shortcomings of the United Nations, whatever their lacks in unity or decision, the heroism of the soldiers of democracy is beyond cavil, a record that glows like an endless string of pearls. For they have made World War II a time of gallantry, sacrifice, incredible toughness; of comradeship among all fighters for freedom without regard to race. In their spirit, Democracy has proven that in one respect at least it cannot be found wanting...
Last week, the Mexican Government remembered Jaime Nuño, sent an army bomber (the first Mexican war plane to fly over U.S. soil in World War II) to fetch his remains from Buffalo. To the strains of a string quartet and a speech by Mayor Joseph J. Kelly, Composer Nuño's body was exhumed and started on its southward flight. In Mexico City a military guard of honor, 300 music conservatory students and a parade of thousands of school children waited to bear the coffin to Mexico's magnificent Monumento de la Revoluti...
...free, public, chamber music concerts will be given at Sanders Theatre, tonight and tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock by Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord, and Alexander Schneider, violinist, of the Budapest String Quartet. No tickets are required...