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...pianist and conductor from Copenhagen, Denmark, now teaching at the University of Rochester, will give two musical programs here next Monday and Tuesday. Bahnson will lecture on the psychology of music with piano illustrations, in Agassiz House, Monday, and give a piano concert featuring contemporary Scandinavian music in Phillips Brook House, Tuesday...
Losing Constructively. George Leader's long leap from Willow Brook Farm to the Statehouse in Harrisburg could only happen in Pennsylvania politics. Last February, when the state's top Democrats met in Harrisburg to select a gubernatorial candidate, Leader was just an uninvited nonentity. On the face of it, the logical Democratic candidate was Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, who had given John Fine a hard fight in the gubernatorial race of 1950. But Dilworth, and his friend, Philadelphia's Mayor Joseph Clark, were embroiled in a nasty intraparty battle over a new city charter...
Techniques for Twitches. Before Landau was flown to the U.S., a blue-eyed pixy named Charles Brook-with a beard remarkably resembling Sigmund Freud's -commuted for weeks between his Har ley Street office and the royal stables outside Newmarket. A psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth...
Therapist Brook learned his technique the hard way-working on humans. With his delicate touch, he says, he has treated insomnia, twitches, failing eyesight, ulcers, bad tempers and alcoholism. He has even helped golf addicts to lower their scores. When he discovered that his laying on of hands worked in absolute silence, he was ready to take on dumb animals...
Hand-Ride for Fisherman. Now and then, after Brook's therapy, horses have run better. Even Landau went well for a while on English tracks last summer. But at Laurel last week, the neurotic colt faced a soggy track and stiff competition from six other fine thoroughbreds...