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On their global good-will tour, Thailand's jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his charming Queen Sirikit arrived in Scandinavia, made an instant hit with the populace. A highlight of their visit was an escorted tour of the old theater in Sweden's summer palace in Drottningho'...
IT was only 106 years ago that experimenting British authorities closed down the common water pump in a busy London square and saw the bustling city's cholera rate drop dramatically. From that experience came a valuable lesson in public health: disease can be transmitted by polluted water. In...
Anthony Powell, a novelist whom British Critic V.S. Pritchett has ranked with Evelyn Waugh, and whom Evelyn Waugh has ranked with Proust (though "more realistic and much funnier"), is almost totally neglected in the U.S. It is not that Powell is dull; he is indeed much funnier than Proust (though...
For those with a taste for such things, Powell's Music of Time is brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times. Nothing like Powell's enterprise has been seen in English letters since Dickens and Trollope went bashing out their three-decker serials...
Fantastic Percussion (Felix Slatkin conducting; Liberty). Classical Conductor Slatkin enlists in the stereo wars, blending 35 kinds of percussion instruments from all over the world to lend new, cool and yet exotic color to standard tunes like Blues in the Night. One of the more civilized and sophisticated stereo demonstrations...