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...Milan last week, courtly Guglielmo Emanuel celebrated his 74th birthday by holding his first art show. On the gallery walls were 49 delicately-colored scenes of Italy and Southern France that would have done a professional credit: airy, back-lighted town vistas, views of Venice and the Riviera, mountain terraces dipping into lush valleys, richly colored flower markets flooded with sunlight. The critics cheered Emanuel's taste, finesse and remarkable craftsmanship. Said one: "He really has the painter...
...Princeton, N.J., science's Grand Old Man Albert Einstein forsook his comfortable, baggy sweater and slacks and dressed up in a neat grey suit to meet the press for a 74th-birthday conference. To reporters, he patiently explained some of the aspects of his lifelong project: the unified-field theory (an attempt to integrate the phenomena of gravitation, magnetism and electricity into one law). He then recalled a simpler discovery made a long time ago: the moment that decided his future as a scientist. It was, he said, the sight of an ordinary compass at the age of five...
...bellowing that this was a forgotten war," said the Veep, "so I told the President he shouldn't come over, but I had some free time." Later, he moved up to the front, lived out of a mess kit, autographed a 105-mm. shell, and celebrated his 74th birthday...
...Balanchine's 73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine's meat. His adventure in Americana was little more than tired cliche...
...Theatricals will this spring present the first musical comedy in the College's history in which girls will provide the leg display. The title of Pi Eta's 74th annual show since 1869 will be "After Taps...