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...faded blue eyes to show a flash of animation as his gaze darted about the courtroom. Alert U.S. deputy marshals hovered close by, and outside the courtroom shirtsleeved FBI men patrolled the corridors. The U.S. had a valuable catch to protect: the prisoner at the bar was Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55. Moscow-born colonel of Soviet intelligence, and possibly the most important Soviet spy ever caught...
Behind the Red colonel's capture lay a bizarre story-only partly exposed last week by tight-lipped Justice officials-that in spots seemed to reflect equal doses of Alec Guinness and E. Phillips Oppenheim. Aided by his invaluable surface nonentity, Rudolf Abel had been a successful spy since 1927, spoke fluent English, French, German, was a good hand at electronics, mechanical engineering, photography. With a fake U.S. birth certificate in his pocket, Abel slipped into the U.S. in 1948 at "an unknown point" along the Canadian border. At home in Russia he left his wife, son, married daughter...
...second half of the program was given to the Cambridge Festival Orchestra, an excellent strings group under the leadership of Daniel Pinkham. As well as playing some diverting performances of music by Karl Friedrich Abel and Henry Purcell, the Orchestra presented works of two composers who were Leverett House men, Robert Moevs and Pinkham himself. The Adagio from the ballet Endymion by Moevs, and the Concertante by Pinkham were both notable more for their lyrical warmth than for modern astringent harmonies. Perhaps a sojourn in Leverett House would do us all good...
...concert by the Cambridge Festival Orchestra, conducted by Daniel R. Pinkham, Jr. '44, will be held in the dining hall at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The program will include works by two former House members, Pinkham and Robert Moevs '42, as well as by Pezel, Bach, Mendelssohn, Abel, and Purcell...
...windowless, concrete, ear-shaped main auditorium (capacity: 2,000) with as many curves as a Stradivarius. On the right wall hangs a cluster of boxes, below a buttonhook-shaped balcony that begins at orchestra level, becomes a raised balcony on the back wall. Says Co-Architect Adolf Abel: "The layout not only makes more sense acoustically but it helps to relax the audience...