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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed...
...Pentagon's first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
...plot, The Dividing Stream adds up to little more than an emotional tempest in a cracked teacup. Atmospherically, English Novelist Francis King, 28, does better. In dozens of pungent little Florentine sketches, ranging from cynical policemen to bent-double washerwomen, he evokes the passion and poverty of the people. Most memorable: two scrubby street urchins who think and move with an artless, pagan ease which suggests that the good life, and not a twisted packet of "problems," is man's rightful heritage...
...Wellesley as they find it, but some 25 percent disappear between freshman and senior classes to join coed schools. But for those who remain, no matter how diversified the academic interests, tradition and honor leave their mark. Wellesley will continue, for many generations to come, to be a minor tempest behind the Teapot of American society
Beethoven: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 (Byron Jam's, pianist; Victor, 2 sides LP). Young (22) Pianist Janis, protege of Vladimir Horowitz, speeds through this stormy sonata ("Tempest") with much 'of the diamond-hard brilliance of his mentor. Recording: good...