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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday night's short but challenging program featured Landon Young as soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. His performance gave a continual impression of control and breadth, of getting far above the notes and phrases to achieve a coherent interpretation of each movement. There was a satisfying bigness about his reading that fitted this concerto perfectly, while not sloughing over the more lyrical passages. The second theme of the opening movement, particularly, with its appealing soulfulness, had a tender, longing quality without being sentimental. One could have wished for just a little less deliberateness...
Working with Dr. Peter Dubach, Douglas Pratt and C. M. Stewart, Professor Smith was studying the hibernating larvae of woodboring beetles (Melandrya striata), trying to isolate the enzymes that digest the cellulose on which the insects live. But when he ground up the larvae and analyzed the juice, he was surprised to find a considerable glycerol content. Since the active summer larvae do not contain glycerol, he guessed that the larvae possessed a mechanism that reacted to cold by producing glycerol to keep their tissues from freezing in the Minnesota winters...
...seven winning heroes. The customers also downed 5,700,000 bottles of free beer, ate 3,000,000 sandwiches. A sort of Everylush that chronicles the progress of evil as it pickles its weak title character, The Drunkard turned the Theatre Mart into a favorite resort for W. C. Fields, Mae West, Lily Pons. Though the playhouse has been put on the block, there is a chance that The Drunkard may survive for one last fling. Its producer hopes to have the company tour the U.S. and culture-thirsty foreign lands...
...morning last week the Associated Press got a request by longdistance telephone from the Minneapolis Star: could A.P. take color pictures of General George C. Marshall's funeral, airship the developed film from Washington to Minneapolis that same night? The A.P. could and did. Next morning at 10:20, right on schedule, five big Star presses rolled. On Page One: a five-column, four-color picture showing the flag-draped casket and its uniformed pallbearers, the pearl-grey columns of Washington Cathedral, the green trees and the blue...
...pleut sur le village," he recalled from an old course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten a C- in the course, "mais alors, M. Plombier etait une ame sympathique...