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Bows & Scrapes
To Royal Navymen, the 20-year-old Nelson and Rodney were something special. They were unlike all other battleships; all their big guns were massed on long, sweeping bows, and could not be trained astern. Navymen liked to believe that they were designed on the proud premise that a British...
"This is the most exciting thing that's happened since the opera house was built," said the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra's manager. The woodwind players were stomping their feet, brass players were applauding; violinists rapped their bows on their music stands. The audience had started it by...
A concluding fashion note states that "Harvard men wear horizontally and vertically striped knitted and foulard ties and bows in restrained patterns." The source of all this revealing data is not disclosed.
Composer Honegger, 55, took no curtain bows. Ill with heart trouble since suffering an attack last summer while teaching at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Center, he is living in seclusion outside Paris, and doing no composing.