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...inducement is a Schwinn "New World" bicycle, which will be handed out by Bow Street's Bicycle Exchange to the lucky winner of the race. Just what the victor is supposed to do with the cycle he won the race on is nuclear, but as Hegel says, onward and upward...
Dolf Samborski's Yardling nine will take a bow at 3:45 p.m. today when it takes on its first competition of the year, the MIT freshmen...
Among the rolling hills of the birch-covered Province of Finnmark is the little (pop. 4,000) town of Kirkenes. Kirkenes sits snugly on one of the richest deposits of iron ore in all Norway. Saturnine, bespectacled Gotfred Hoelvold sits smugly on Kirkenes. Respected citizens of the village bow politely when they meet Gotfred on the street, and whisper uneasily when he has passed by. Policemen salute him with obsequious care. Even the Norwegian army garrison is obliged to seek out Gotfred for help from time to time...
Actually, the orchestra's fate was in a mortal lap. Next season, the orchestra's 38-year-old First Cellist Howard Mitchell will be wielding the baton instead of the bow. Handsome Howard Mitchell might need some Olympian help at that, however, since there were indications that it might not be forthcoming from some of the usual backers of the orchestra. One ardent Kindler supporter, who chipped in $41,000 for the orchestra last year, had pointedly limited himself to $10 in his first contribution this year...
...lips trumpeter, was persuaded at 15 to switch to cello by the high-school orchestra instructor back in Sioux City, Iowa. Six months later, he had won a statewide cello contest. After scholarships at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory and at Curtis, he settled down to buzz and bow under Kindler. Two years ago, when Kindler was ill, Mitchell got his first chance to conduct the National Symphony, made an able understudy's success. His appointment made Washington's the eighth major orchestra in the U.S. (among 25 with budgets of $100,000 or more) with an American...