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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, still looking fresh and energetic, the Queen set out for an overnight visit with her old friend, Eleanor Roosevelt, at Hyde Park, stopping en route for a two-hour tour of Philadelphia and an appearance at the 300th anniversary of Dutch-founded Kingston (pop. 28,817), N.Y. This week the royal couple motored down to see what had happened to another Dutch settlement, New Amsterdam. The big city made it plain that it enjoyed seeing the Queen too: a quarter-million people cheered her as she rode up lower Broadway to be welcomed at City Hall...
...main feature of Holmes will be the music library which is being moved over, en toto, from the Radcliffe Library. Record stacks will be placed in Holmes' basement, with listening rooms, booths equipped with phonographs, and eight practice rooms, five of which will contain pianos. The basement will not only have a reading room, but also a typing room and lounge combined...
Within 24 hours, an emergency committee in Honolulu raised $5,000 to send six Hawaiians (a Gold Star mother and five veterans) off to Washington to make Connally eat his words. En route, the Hawaiians stopped off at Austin, Texas, and got a rousing reception from old friends in Texas' 36th Division. The reason: a "lost battalion" of the Texas 36th, when encircled by the enemy in France in 1944, was rescued by the U.S. 442nd regimental combat team, which was made up mostly of Hawaiian-born Japanese-Americans. At the time, none of the Texans made inquiries about...
...every ensemble can move from a Haydn quartet to the viscous impressionism of Ravel without losing some authenticity en route. But the Budapest group played Ravel's F Major Quartet with all the suavity of tone and relaxation of phrasing that the piece required. In thematic structure and general outline the work is similar to the better-known Debussy quartet, but the contrasts seem much sharper here. The long, meditative third movement and the very short, intense finale demand virtuosity as well as restraint--two qualities for which the Budapest Quartet is famous. Ravel's skillful use of the quartet...
...three men, Juliua L. Garelick '52, Marc Gertner '54 and Bruce R. Ruttenberg '54 were en route to Cambridge Monday morning when just outside Elizabeth they heard radio reports of the crash and saw the flames...