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...switch in roles. Time was, and not so long ago, that wave after wave of bony-faced, floppy-haired Australians would flash into Forest Hills, flay the U.S. amateurs, and fly off with all the prizes. The top Aussies might then turn professional, but Australia was so deep in first-rank tennis players that it hardly made a difference; next year's wave would be just as devastating. Last week Australia had to be content with a one-man wave and a wavelet-second-seeded Roy Emerson and fifth-seeded Ken Fletcher. Emerson won at Forest Hills back...
Today, at 51, Meistermann is not only a first-rank painter but also Germany's master of the stained-glass window (sec opposite page). Though such artists as Matisse and Chagall in France, as well as Abraham Rattner in the U.S. and John Piper in Britain, have helped give this once-neglected art a new prestige, Meistermann is probably the most prolific designer of all. He has done dozens of windows for clubs, chapels, offices and public buildings all over West Germany...
...American conductor - a temperamental twin to the operatic tenor - has shared the orchestra's celebrated status; some, indeed, have defined it. In Europe, many a conductor has become a stoop-shouldered civil servant or a traveling virtuosity show. But in the U.S., a first-rank conductor can settle down comfortably, find a sympathetic barber to whom it seems reasonable that he must look even better from the back than he does from the front, and seize the authority to make music in his own style...
Bohr took the terrible news with him to New York and passed it along to U.S. physicists whom he trusted. By then the U.S. was well supplied with first-rank physicists, many of them Bohr's former students; they understood only too well the implications of his message. Soon confirming experiments were in full swing. Bohr himself worked for a while at Princeton. And there, one snowy night as he walked from his club to a laboratory, a problem that he had been puzzling over was unexpectedly resolved and the facts fell into place. Bohr realized that...
...Investa Mutual Fund, whose holdings have soared from $58 million to $161 million. Next largest German mutual fund is Concentra, which is sponsored by Frankfurt's Dresdner Bank, has $124 million in assets and hooks customers with a clever come-on: "For $25 become a stockholder in 30 first-rank companies...