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...Near East has gen erally meant both. 2) Beneficiary of the deal was neither Britain, whose Near East oil holdings are richest in Iraq and Persia, nor Russia, which has shared Britain's interest in Afghanistan as a buffer state northwest of India, but a first-string...
...Tuesday evening in Jordan Hall, the new chamber music group organized by Bernard Zighera is to give its second concert. The remarkable program opens with Haydn's "La Reine" Symphony and continues with a Concerto for Strings written by the modern composer Jereszy Fitelberg. Bartlett and Robertson, two piano artists, are to play Bach's Concerto in C minor and Mozart's Concerto in E flat, and the concert concludes with d'Indy's Concerto for piano,l flute, cello, and string orchestra. This promises to be a very unusual and worth-while evening...
...Sport the white Man of the Year was Lou ("Iron Man'') Gehrig who continued his string of consecutive baseball games played with the New York Yankees to 1,808 in eleven years, making 49 home runs in 1936, helping win another World Series and being again voted "most valuable player in the American League." Black Man of the Year was Sprinter Jesse Owens. His Olympic record-championships in three individual events, one team event-has been equaled only by red-skinned Jim Thorpe in 1912 and stamps him Sport's Man of the Year...
...Cherry Orchard fell at the start, breaking his jockey's collarbone. Airilame was defeated for the first time, and all three Vanderbilt entries in a third race inexplicably failed to live up to expectations. At Saratoga, an epidemic of coughing ruined the chances of the promising Vanderbilt string of two-year-olds. Then Good Harvest ran a piece of timber through his chest that killed him. Discovery, theretofore the most dependable horse in the U. S.. ran so badly he had to be retired. Last week, at Santa Anita's opening, Vanderbilt horses failed to finish...
Meantime in Duquesne, another case of lax guardianship presented itself to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's attention. Martin Sullivan, a 70-year-old Duquesne policeman who rouged his cheeks, penciled his eyebrows, dyed his hair and capped a bald spot with a toupee held on by a string under his chin, always liked to have little girls accompany him on his beat, carrying his nightstick. Four years ago he married one of them, aged 15. She lately deserted him. Last week in Duquesne he was taken to court on a charge of having raped another girl, aged...