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...concert pianist, but gave up after one school concert. He studied medicine, got his first job in 1929 as house surgeon in London's St. George Hospital. Meanwhile he had taught himself music theory, joined an amateur orchestra for summer tours in Europe. At Salzburg, he once persuaded Bruno Walter to let him sit in his orchestra, to study Walter's ways...
...audience had never seen Orpheus treated so splendidly. Veteran Salzburg critic Max Graf was not being intentionally sarcastic when he said that Bruno Walter's severe 1932 version "was only greater vocally...
...experts are not sure what particle (or particles) causes this great commotion. Some think the primary rays are electrons which must be moving (to have so much energy) at almost the speed of light. But Dr. Bruno Rossi of M.I.T. presented a paper at last week's meeting claiming that there are practically no electrons or photons (high energy electromagnetic waves) among the primary radiations. They are observed in the showers along with other particles, but Rossi believes that they are formed when the primary ray (whatever it is) hits the atmosphere...
...years ago, a bronze smelter named Bruno Bearzi set out to prove that there was. Instead of scraping the doors, as others had tried, he mixed a special solvent to wash away the dirt and corrosion of centuries. Last week, while the Baptistery choir sang and long trumpets blared, the curtains over the doors fell away. At the sight, women fell to their knees; men wept. After all the years, Ghiberti's doors glistened and gleamed once more as he had made them...
...Music, a sell-out audience was waiting to see if Conductor Walter had lost any of his old magic. After a magnificent performance of Bruckner's Te Deum, they were still wary. But after Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, they could hold back no longer. Almost before Bruno could bring his baton down, a young girl had rushed to the podium with a handful of red roses. For fifteen minutes, holding his posies before him, he bowed to the bravos and applause...