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...Edinburgh Festival, three famed fiddlers were unable to decide who should take which part in Vivaldi's Concerto for Three Violins last week, ended up by drawing lots. Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin drew first and third. The second part went to Italy's Gioconda de Vito, 46, all but unknown in the U.S. but usually called Europe's No. 1 woman violinist...
...Edinburgh has featured a three-century capsule history of violin music this year, so it was only fitting that Italy, home of the violin, should send Gioconda de Vito, along with the string-strong Rome Symphony Orchestra, the Virtuosi di Roma, and Conductors Vittorio Gui and Fernando Previtali.* De Vito and her countrymen have been among the hits of the festival...
Growing Up. A mystery that has fascinated philosophers for thousands of years is how a complete organism develops out of a single fertilized egg cell. Biologist C. H. Waddington of the University of Edinburgh reports that it is a mystery still. The biologists can bother fertilized ova in all sorts of ways, but they cannot explain how the apparently simple cell can, all by itself, construct something as complicated as a whale...
Last week Canadian-born Thomson crossed the ocean again for the biggest newspaper deal of his brief but spectacular career. For about $3,000,000, he bought control of Scotland's small but influential 136-year-old morning Scotsman (circ. 55,000) and its sister papers, the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch (71,000) and the Weekly Scotsman (66,000). In taking control of the papers from old Scottish family ownership, Thomson gets a staff of 800, a 13-story Renaissance-style building that cost $2,400,000 in 1904, and the prestige of a pioneer publishing company. On the Scotsman...
...page ads; we'll have to see. But we won't be fighting just to hold our ground." To get a better view, Publisher Thomson, who this year was an unsuccessful Tory candidate for the Canadian Parliament, plans to move to Scotland, make his permanent home in Edinburgh. Says he: "Up to now, I've just been an accumulator of papers. I've never been an operator. Now I'm going to operate a paper, day to day. I'm going to be right in the middle...