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Captain John Livingood nipped Chuck Gamble, runner-up in last year's New England Intercollegiates, one up by sinking a twenty-footer for a winning par as Gamble bogied the eighteenth...
...Sponsored by the government of the Republic of China, the exhibition contains items formerly belonging to the imperial court at Peiping and represents over eight hundred years of imperial collecting. The items themselves range in time from Shang ritual bronze pots which date about 1500 to 100 B.C. to eighteenth century Ch'ing dynasty enameled vases. Many of the items have not been displayed in more than twenty years. Due to the extreme security measures taken during the transfered of the collection to Taiwan, they have remained crated during and since their removal...
Harvard College figures in several recent Christmassy records. The renowned E. Power Biggs can be heard playing Twelve Noels by the eighteenth-century French composer, Louis Claude Daquin on the reedy, mock-sixteenth-century Flentrop Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum (Columbia ML 5567). And the Harvard Glee Club has recorded on a local label a handsome selection of the more worthwhile Christmas carols--Volume I (Cambridge Records CRS-401), for instance, includes Vaughan Williams' arrangements of the Gloucestershire and Yorkshire Wassails, "Lo, How a Rose," Gustav Holst's Personent Hodie, the sussex Carol, and "The Holly...
That dwindling band of eighteenth-century gentlemen (that was once, in better days, the mainstay of this institution) will be cheered by the bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J. S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (dam' fine fellahs, too) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...
...Historically, the role of the chief state executive has been played down," said Peabody, because the framers of the State constitutions had the abuses of the colonial governors fresh in their minds. Most states have discarded many of the hampering restrictions imposed in the eighteenth century...