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...Croesus-rich Gerard B. Lambert (Listerine), a Johnny-come-lately to yacht racing, bought the old has-been from Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1927-and how. skippered by Charles Francis Adams, she finished second in the transatlantic race from New York to Spain the next summer...
...Elizabethan England comes a church liturgy by Byrd, full of wonderful organ effects and harmonic coloring. The secular spirit of the same age finds expression in a Morley madrigal, which has the fresh lyrical flavor one associates with Shakespeare's songs. Conventional seventeenth-century numbers are the choruses from "Croesus" and "Prinz Jodelet," by Reinhardt Keiser, but they are energetic and tuneful--and for modern ears, unusual. Finishing off with the boisterous drunkards' chorus from Moussorgsky's "Kovantschina," and the sparkling finale of the "Gondoliers," the program leaves the listener, relaxed on the grass, in a peasant frame of mind...
...Yale Club, led by Marshall Bartholomew, will sing a group of American folk songs. The Program Choruses from Croesus and Prinz Jodelet Keiser Shoot, false love Morley Glorius Apollo Webbe (Written for the first Glee Club London, 1700) Chorus from Khovanstichina Moussorgsky (Soloist: Fred Rogosin, 1G) Harvard Follow me down to Carlow Irish Folk Tune Nina Porgolese (Soloist: Donald S. Dever, Jr., '41) Ca' Hawkie Through the Watter North England Folk Tune The Turtle Dove Scotch Tune (Soloist: Hunter H. Comly, '41) More Was Lost at Mohacs Field Hungarian Folk Song Yale Brothers, Sing On Grieg Yale and Harvard American...
...collection of three historical novelettes, Lives of Wives draws its characters from three pre-Christian periods, the times 1) of Cyrus and Croesus, 2) of Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great and Aristotle, 3) of Caesar, Antony and Herod the Great. But these famed figures "are here written of as husbands rather than as heroes." Told in an exact, classical prose, and simply condensing a vast amount of fact, Lives of Wives keeps a shrewd, wifely eye on these celebrated husbands, dissects what was the matter with their wives...
...must be remembered, however, that to many Cambridge citizens, Harvard seems a vast, sprawling Croesus, living on Cambridge soil, building its towers, providing palatial quarters for its students, causing hundreds of fires, hundreds of riots and disturbances, hundreds of traffic snarls each year. In return for this it pays nothing. Or, at best, a mere $72,000 a year. It is right that it pay more, reason those at Central Square. But this picture is fallacious. Any perusal of President Conant's letter will show such assertions deftly and straightforwardly answered...