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Bach: Concerto in C Major for Three Harpsichords and Strings (Manuel and Williamson Harpsichord Ensemble; Musicraft; 5 sides; $5). Top-drawer Bach recorded with harpsichords for the first time. But, as on earlier discs, these exquisitely cultivated Chicago harpsichordists leave out the oomph which was Bach...
...Literature was awarded to Roger Martin du Gard. His long novel, Les Thibault, was little known outside France; he was something of a recluse who saw what he wanted to see of the world through a peephole, and who wrote from a photostatic recollection of his own top-drawer bourgeois life before and during World War I. When, after the award was announced, a reporter tried to stop the scurrying prizewinner for questions, Martin du Card refused to talk. The reporter asked why. For the same reason, explained the author, that he would not let his four-year-old grandson...
...than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer. Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about. A few days later he went to Bandung, collapsed with pernicious anemia, and died. Javanese natives were impressed...
...kindly, and because of his charitable efforts on behalf of two unprofitable British professions has been nicknamed "Prince of Beggars" and "The Midwife's Friend." He is an excellent specimen - almost too good, in days when figureheads are taken to sum up their societies-out of the top drawer of British nobility. A huntin', shootin', fishin' county gentleman, he is not unlike Cartoonist David Low's ultra-ultra-conservative Colonel Blimp. When he left London for his new post, his most edifying remark was to some fellow members of the Marlborough Club: he said...
...wonderful for Afrikanders suddenly to hear No. 10 Downing St. talking not top-drawer English but such familiar jargon as trek and laager (a camp bulwarked at night by a circle of covered wagons...