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...Variations on Mary Had A Little Lamb," by Edward Ballantine '05, associate professor of Music emeritus. Other works to be performed are Danius Milhaud's modern arrangement of Couperin's "Overture and Allegro" from the "La Sultane Suite;" Faure's "Elegie" for cello and orchestra with Judith Davidoff, Radcliffe '50 as the soloist; Dvor ak's sixth "Slavonic Dance;" Debussy's "Sacred Dance" for harp and strings with Phyllis Botner, Radcliffe '50 as soloist; and an excerpt from Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Celebrates 140th Anniversary; Organization, Founded in 1808, Runs Orchestra | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

...Judith Davidoff, Radcliffe '50 is president of the 'Cliffe Orchestra, while Joan Projausky, Radcliffe '49 heads the Radcliffe Dance Group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Celebrates 140th Anniversary; Organization, Founded in 1808, Runs Orchestra | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

Neurosurgeons find these candidates hard to discourage. Dr. Leo M. Davidoff, of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, does very few lobotomies, warns patients sternly: "Although surgery is sometimes necessary, it is a barbaric form of therapy." Says Dr. Winfred Overholser, chief of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D. C.: "The operation is very much overdone. It is even done on young people who have had no opportunity to try other forms of therapy. I look upon it as a mutilating operation. It puts out of commission the part of the brain that separates man from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Losing Nerves | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Bummy, born Abraham Davidoff in the brick jungles of Brooklyn's Brownsville, made his first impact on the world as a boy knish-peddler. In a short time he had all but eliminated competition, not through business acumen but by belting the brains out of other little knish peddlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Tough Guy | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...sportswriter (the late W. O. McGeehan) used to call it "the manly art of modified murder." And modified murder was what this particular boxing match looked like. In Manhattan's Polo Grounds 27-year-old Fritzie Zivic, world's welterweight champion, met 21-year-old Abraham Davidoff, U.S. Army private known in the ring as, Al ("Bummy") Davis, in about that was bloodier than a bullfight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It Was a Pleasure | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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