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Last week the Quartetto Italiano wound up a sensational first tour of the U.S. with a Manhattan recital that made some quartet history itself. Acknowledging their audience with businesslike bows, the four young (average age 29) musicians stroked into one of their countrymen's compositions for a starter. Unhampered...
In Texas river bottoms the sweet gum trees were tinged with yellow. At night, deer jumped the wire fences to nibble at the heavy-headed sorghum. The rivers ran low and clear, and yellow cats, black bass, carp and perch sailed lazily in their depths, too fat to bother with...
As a political oracle, Harry Truman bows neither to man nor public-opinion poll. Last week, at his weekly press conference, the President cocked his head and assumed his wise, oracular look while the New York Times's William Lawrence asked a carefully framed question. "Mr. President," said Lawrence...
Increasingly, chamber music pays. For a concert performance, the Budapest gets at least $800. Annual earnings: about $25,000 a man (to which record royalties contribute about $5,000 apiece). Audiences still thrive on the standard 17th and 18th Century repertory, but the quartet has found some listeners eager for...
Last week, after many months of increasing Caiapó depredations, the State of Para Chamber of Commerce sent an angry telegram to Brazil's Congress, "transmitting the intense clamor of the state's population against the murdering of rubber tappers and nut gatherers by the Caiapó Indians...