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...bravura. The viola da gamba is a seven stringed instrument resembling the 'cello, yet the remarkable freedom and slightly nasal sweetness of its tone make it much more appropriate than the 'cello for Baroque music. Harvard is fortunate in having this opportunity to hear Mr. Wenzinger, one of the foremost performers on the instrument and an expert in the performance of styles of Baroque music...
Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 65, Archbishop of Palermo. At 27, Ruffini was a professor of biblical introduction (interpretation of the Bible in the light of science, history and doctrine) at Rome's Gregorian University. He has since become one of the church's foremost educators and theologians. In 1944 he founded the Medical Biological Union of St. Luke, whose aim is to clarify Catholic doctrine in the field of medical science...
After graduation he worked on his Ph.D. theses under Professor Gregory Baxter. Baxter at that time was studying events in outer space, and Nash's thesis became a study of the gases in meteorites. Today, one of the country's foremost gas analysts, Nash calls his unusual sorcery "Analysis of What Goes Up the Stack...
...years ago a dispute started when Sears objected to Osmond K. Frankael '08, vice-president of the Lawyer's Guild, speaking at the Law School. Sears pointed to a report of the House Un-American Affairs Committee which called the Guild "the foremost bulwark of the Communist party...
Throughout San Francisco last week. Hearst's Call-Bulletin (circ. 148,079) splashed posters trumpeting "Your NEW Call-Bulletin" ran full-page announcements that the paper had been redesigned by the "world's foremost designer of modern newspapers." Across the continent in Manhattan, the Herald-Tribune (331,853), which has won more major typographical awards than any other paper in the U.S., made no announcement as it transformed its sports pages to test a front-to-back typographical overhauling. But both jobs were the handiwork of the same man-beefy, jovial Gilbert Farrar. 66. who has redesigned...