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...playing and singing in the Magnificat were generally of high quality. The vocal soloists, Lee Calder, Dorothy Crawford, Sarah Jane Smith, Thomas Beveridge, and Karl Sorensen all gave musicianly readings of the arias, duet, and trio. At times there was not sufficient balance between soloist and orchestra, as often the result of too soft singing as too loud playing. Dorothy Crawford, in particular, could not seem to muster enough volume. There were also instances of imbalance between chorus and orchestra, caused mainly by the great army of tenors and basses that filled the stage...

Author: By Bertram Baldwin, | Title: Gabrieli and Bach | 4/16/1957 | See Source »

...Oklahomans. among them Tulsa's police chief and police commissioner as well as Newshawk Bulloch. The mass indictment was all the more disturbing since there is no question in Tulsa of the integrity or legal skill of the prosecutor, a hard-driving U.S. district attorney named B. Hayden Crawford. Readers who flooded the paper with letters supporting Bulloch last week could only assume, as the Tribune does, that some of the liquor runners and prostitutes who testified before the grand jury may have been more anxious to quash Bulloch than bootlegging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scorpion Hunt | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Some scientists have never admitted that relativistic time dilation can give any kind of immortality. But in last week's Nature, Dr. Frank S. Crawford Jr. of the University of California (Berkeley) offered theoretical proof that high speed can postpone at least one kind of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Young in Space | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Methuselah of Space. Instead of sending a human subject into space at close to the speed of light and comparing him physically on his return with stay-at-home contemporaries, Dr. Crawford uses mu mesons. When these subatomic particles are at rest in relation to the earth, they disintegrate in an average earth time of less than two-millionths of a second. But when they are created by cosmic rays hitting atomic nuclei high in the atmosphere, they seem to have comparative immortality. Many of them reach the earth's surface more than ten miles below, although their short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Young in Space | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Lined up against U.S. Attorney John Calvin Crawford Jr. (described by a Tennessee judge as "the best all-around U.S. attorney in the country today") were four experienced trial lawyers (including Nashville's Thomas Page Gore, a first cousin to Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore). The attorneys general of Louisiana and Texas sent word that they would attend the trial themselves or have representatives there. Fund-raising drives for the defense were organized in Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. The issue to be fought out in Knoxville: Can the federal judiciary properly invoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Schoolroom to Courtroom | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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