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...been without a major orchestra since its main symphony backer, Industrialist Henry H. Richhold (chemicals), pulled out, purse and person (TIME, Sept. 5, 1949). Last week, following the lead of Detroit music critics, the town was beginning to get fired up over the idea of trying again. J. Dorsey Callaghan, the Detroit Free Press critic, even went so far as to ask "a conductor whose musical reputation is an international one" as to his availability for a job. In answer to his question, old (76) Serge Koussevitzky, who turned over his Boston Symphony to Charles Munch last year, replied: WILL
ACTIVE INTEREST. Wrote jubilant Critic Callaghan: "The chance is here, and right now. It [is] a case of put up or shut up . . ." He was just a little ahead of the beat. The old Symphony Society had disintegrated: the first problem seemed to be to find a new group able to say yes or no in the name of Detroit...
...electric heart reviver, developed by Drs. John C. Callaghan and Wilfred G. Bigelow of the University of Toronto. An electrode is inserted through a vein to within an inch of the heart's pace-setting node. If the heart has stopped, electric pulses set it beating again; if it is faltering, they make it beat more regularly. Used so far on animals, the "pacemaker" is ready for human tests...
...TIME Canadian each week by air-so that they can read the news while it is still fresh. For instance, eight copies go via Canadian Pacific Air Lines to subscribers in Aklavik above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon D. Scram-stad in Yellowknife, and farther north to D. E. Webster in Good Hope...
...last week The Varsity Story had sold some 5,000 copies in Canada (royalties to Toronto). The university was not saying just how many of Callaghan's and other hints had been picked up by wealthy alumni. But if & when Toronto got the money, it would go (together with a $7,000,000 appropriation from the Ontario government) for such things as a men's dormitory, a women's building, a medical research center to be named after Charles H. Best, co-discoverer* of insulin, and the addition to the library that the philosophy professor wanted...