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Mozart: Quartet in 6 Major, K.387 (Griller String Quartet, English Decca, 8 sides). One of Mozart's greatest; the performance lacks the fire to make it great. Recording: good. Concerto in A Major, K.488 (Clifford Curzon, pianist, with the National Symphony Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Another great work, played by one of Britain's best pianists. In this dull, muffled recording, however, it sounds as if his piano were out in the wings...
Princeton's new $6,000,000, six-story Firestone Memorial Library would be the world's largest open-stack collection: anybody could get at the books by just walking to the shelf. All Librarian Julian P. Boyd had to do was move in the 800,000 books, waiting 30 yards away in the overcrowded old library. He had promised to do it in such a way that no book would be hors de combat more than four hours...
...MAXWELL BOYD...
...atomic bomb, but the food crisis that may destroy us." That was the valedictory, delivered in Geneva last week, of Sir John Boyd Orr, preparing to retire as director general of U.N.'s Food & Agriculture Organization...
Meanwhile, Matthews has allotted space to each department and chosen illustrations (news photographs, cartoons, historical pictures) in conference with Picture & Make-Up Editor Robert Boyd. When the stories are checked they are ready for the teletypesetters. Machines in TIME'S New York office wire the copy simultaneously to the Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles printing plants. Boyd and his assistants in New York paste up proofs on huge sheets, tell editors, late on Monday night, where lines must be added or killed to make pages...