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...summer season possible. For one of the few times in her life, Mrs. Coolidge then asked a sentimental favor in return: would the quartet please call itself the Berkshire Quartet? It was the name which Mrs. Coolidge had given to the first string quartet she organized, 32 years ago...
Daughter of a wealthy Chicago grocer and widow of a distinguished Chicago surgeon, Mrs. Coolidge* is something of an amateur of music herself. She has played the piano in informal recitals with violinists like Kneisel and Zimbalist. Five years ago, at 79, she amazed her friends by sitting in with the Kolisch Quartet at the Library of Congress, to play Schumann's Quintet for Piano and Strings. Last year one of her own trios, written in 1930, was performed at the Library...
Thirty-five years ago the name would have stumped even the experts. But last week it was on many lips. In its first purchase for two years, Manhattan's conservative Frick collection had just bought La Tour's Education of the Virgin-the fourth U.S.-owned La Tour...
...years ago Drs. Arthur G. Schoch and Lee J. Alexander of Dallas' Syphilis and Venereal Disease Clinic started looking for a quick way to knock out syphilis while it is still in the incubation stage. They think they have found it. Their "abortive treatment" consists of injection of 900,000 units of penicillin, three cubic centimeters of bismuth ethylcamphorate, 0.05 to 0.06 grams of arsenoxide. The drugs cost only one-tenth of the full penicillin treatment, and the injections take only five minutes. Out of 148 patients who had been in contact with known syphilitics, 127 were under observation...
Anna and her husband John had paid $15,000 for the Phoenix Shopping News two years ago, had sunk a reported $580,000 (their own and other people's) into making it a Democratic afternoon daily. But even in its best month the Times lost $5,000. After John quit (TIME, Feb. 16), Anna loaded the Times with puffs, hoping to appease and attract advertisers. She succeeded only in displeasing her 31,000 readers and antagonizing her staff...