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...famed skimeister regarded as "the father of modern skiing" for his development of the "Arlberg Method" of crouching and swinging instead of standing erect on the downhill run; of a heart ailment; in North Conway, N.H. Schneider taught kings, princes and American millionaires at his ski school at St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria, came to North Conway to found a school in 1939 after a brief imprisonment by the Nazis...
...SELECTED LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV (331 pp.)-Edited by Lillian Hellman-Farrar, Straus...
...Anton Chekhov of the Selected Letters wears his rue with a difference: it is not black, only charcoal grey. No one mocked his low spirits more high-spiritedly than Chekhov. While he put his genius into his short stories and plays, he put his complaints into his letters. But deftly introduced and edited by Playwright Lillian Hellman, Letter-Writer Chekhov emerges as a sweet, kind and amiable grouch, and his correspondence as a thoroughly engaging testimonial to the power of negative thinking...
...belong to is the highly visionary College of Europe. The college was born at the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague. There, Salvador de Madariaga, onetime Spanish Ambassador to the U.S., suggested that a special school be set up for the study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye, seconded the motion, moved that the school be located in Bruges ("There is a European spirit in the very stones of this city"). In 1949 an experimental, three-week course began; in 1950 its founders decided to expand the school, picked Dutchman Hendrik Brugmans, professor of French literature...
...might naturally have been expected, the Leverett House Dramatic Society's initial program presented some rough edges. Of the three plays--Marriage Proposal, by Anton Chckhov, Strangest Kind of Romance, by Tennessec Williams, and Weatherwise, by Noel Coward --the last could be called thoroughly enjoyable. The others, irrespective of their merits as plays, suffered from various degrees of clumsiness in acting, direction, and production...