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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: Sonata No. 3, Op. 69 (Pierre Fournier, cello; Artur Schnabel, piano; Victor, 6 sides). French Cellist Fournier made a hit two seasons ago at the Edinburgh Festival with Pianist Schnabel, Violinist Joseph Szigeti, and Violist William Primrose (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947). Here, in his U.S. record debut with Schnabel (and Beethoven), he succeeds again. Recording: excellent...
...anything to get himself into baseball's hall of fame (though he hit 18 home runs for the Giants in 1945). One of his chief distinctions was off-the-field acrobatics-he could crawl out a hotel window and dangle from the ledge by his fingertips. Three years ago, after a spring training row with the Giants, he stormed off to play, for more money, with the Mexican League (TIME, March 11, 1946) and was suspended from organized U.S. baseball for five years...
After his ankle went bad a year ago, Calumet Farm's Armed was turned out to graze on Kentucky bluegrass. Armed is a gelding and no use at stud, but as 1947's horse-of-the-year, and winner of $773,700 (now third highest in racing history), the then seven-year-old had earned the right to grow old in comfort. Instead, Armed perked up with the rest cure; his ankle bothered him hardly at all. Last week, to a sentimental flurry of applause from the crowd, the old champ jogged to the post at Hialeah Park...
Hialeah race fans had not been sentimental enough to make him the favorite, but for one shining moment it looked as though he might come through. After lagging for half a mile behind horses that two years ago would only have been warmups for him, he began to cut his way through the pack. It was too late; the best he could do was third-and prize money...
Then, fortnight ago, 13-year-old Alma Tallantire came home from the Maltby Hall Secondary Modern School (Yorkshire) and refused to eat her egg. When her mother, Mrs. Lewis Tallantire, wanted to know why, Alma blamed a sex lecture for girls at her school which explained how eggs were made. Mrs. Tallantire explored further, discovered among Alma's childish effects pictures copied from the school's blackboard. Said indignant Mrs. Tallantire: "[They] would label me as a dirty woman if they were found in my handbag." She compared notes with other mothers, heard that their daughters had lost...