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...Yugoslavia and Italy had no reason to quarrel over Trieste. Tito blandly glossed over the rough stuff displayed by his supporters a fortnight ago in the Yugoslav-occupied zone of Trieste (TIME...
...Yugoslavs, determined to keep Zone B, treated it as a Yugoslav province. A fortnight ago they staged an election for a new regional council; merger of Zone B into Yugoslavia was the real question at stake...
...decent, healthy Christian ideals and still be amusing and entertaining." With an artist friend he prepared dummies and peddled his plan from publisher to publisher until it was accepted by the huge and profitable Hulton Press, owners of the Picture Post (circ. 1,500,000). Its first issue a fortnight ago was a 750,000-copy sellout. For last week's issue newsdealers had placed cash-backed orders for 1,986,000 copies...
When three-year-old Hill Prince, top-flight Kentucky Derby hopeful, ran away with the six-furlong Experimental Free Handicap No. 1 at Jamaica a fortnight ago (TIME, April 17), a lot of people besides his jockey, Eddie Arcaro, were impressed. Last week the customers made him a 1-to-2 favorite in the second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. A victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found...
Since 1939, when he became William Allan Neilson Research Professor at Smith, he and his wife and daughter have lived in Northampton. He also travels to Princeton for a weekly lecture, every fortnight or so drops by to visit his distinguished cousin Albert. Last year the Princeton University Press published the three-volume book he has been working toward for over 30 years, The Italian Madrigal, which not only is the definitive work on 16th and early 17th Century Italian secular music but a historical study of Renaissance Italy as well...