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...quite sure what had set them off: the flashing performance of a violinist unknown to San Francisco audiences, Russian-born Tossy Spivakovsky, 37, or the wonders of the work he had just played, Béla Bartók's only concerto for violin...
...Beat Behind. San Francisco was only a beat behind in belatedly discovering the greatness of Béla Bartók's music (TIME, March 18, 1946). Most listeners had stumbled on Bartók's harsh, stubborn harmonies, his jagged rhythms, and never got through to the original and melodic genius that audiences and critics were now beginning to find in his music. Not until a year after his death in 1945 did audiences get to hear much of his music, and to convince themselves that they liked it. Big record companies rushed his last great compositions...
...Council's program is under the joint direction of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Boston Museum of science. Among the members of the governing board of the new council in Bart J. Box, professor of Astronomy and associate director of the Harvard Museum. Other members include professors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown...
Clothes for Jane. Mister Bart joined the Mirror shortly after the late Lord Northcliffe founded it in 1903; Northcliffe turned the paper over to his brother, the late Lord Rothermere, who moved out in 1931. Who now owns a controlling interest in the Mirror is Fleet Street's biggest mystery. But the board of directors and thousands of stockholders are quite satisfied to let Bartholomew, chairman of the Mirror and Pictorial, run both papers as long as they make fat profits (net for their last fiscal years: ?535,111). Now 64, he has run the Mirror since 1931, built...
...find out what his readers want, Mister Bart occasionally does a bit of pub-crawling. This has resulted in a New Look for Jane. After enduring several cold winters in bra and panties (or less), she has been more modestly clad; Bartholomew, impressed by the Mirror's political weathermaking, thinks her old near-nudeness "no longer seems right in a paper which people are taking seriously...