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Reger, Suite in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello, (C) M L 4678 14.7; Shostakovitch, Symphony #1 in F Major, Op 10, (A) And 35361 28.5; Mendeissohn; Octet in Eb Major...
...named Encyclopaedia Britannica began 190 years ago in a clear, sparkling rill of Scotch whisky. The tale of the encyclopedia's turbulent course from the Edinburgh workshop of hard-drinking Editor William Smellie to its present serene residence at the University of Chicago is told in The Great EB (University of Chicago Press; 339 pp.; $4.95) by Herman Kogan, drama critic and books editor of the Chicago Sun-Times...
...NATO was without form, and void; so was created SACEUR. Alone in the darkness, SACEUR was joined by SUSREP-NADPB, CINCNELM and EB. Soon the firmament radiated JAMAG, MAPAG, MAAG and CPUBINFO and there was Light...
...Chief of Public Information), named 80 sub-agencies and offices to be officially designated by top secret anagrams-their initials. By last week the number had increased to 125. Most everybody knew SACEUR (pronounced "Sack your" meaning the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, i.e., Dwight Eisenhower). They could guess at EB (the Executive Bureau of the Temporary Committee of the North Atlantic Council), but who could explain that SUSREP-NADPB meant Senior U.S. Representative North Atlantic Defense Production Board, or that CINCNELM meant Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean? Whether a man was a MRS (Military Representative...
...EB offers its readers more than a mere 24 volumes of knowledge. Any owner of a set is entitled to ask EB any 50 questions in ten years that he cares to, and readers send in queries at the rate of 35,000 a year-from "Who is the Unknown Soldier?" to "What color was Eve's hair?" Some readers also like to try to catch EB in error, but relatively few have done so in Walter Yust's 20 years. With some of the world's top experts on call, and with the constant revision that...