Word: fortnights
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...next fortnight will be important mainly in convincing a very good crew that it must work to beat a very game Yale beat. That is where Red Top, with its reminders of Spike Chace and Bob Herrick and of Leverett Saltonstall's 1914 Henley winners, can play a part...
...five years since Drew became Ontario's Premier, his wife has been knee-deep in politics. At the same time she is not too busy to keep an eye on her two children, Sandra, 8, and Edward, 10. During last fortnight's tour she called home every night to check on them, was constantly picking up little souvenirs to take them. "I feel as if I'm working 26 hours a day," she said. "But I like it, you know...
...latest blow came with a new suite for string quartet, based on Panamanian folk music. It was given a first performance last fortnight in Los Angeles, but the Los Angeles critics were not there; they had to cover the Ojai (Calif.) music festival where Stravinsky was the guest of honor. What's more, the area around the Still concert was roped off to traffic because of some relay races at the nearby Coliseum. Conditions were not ideal for a premiere, but listeners who struggled in found it worth the effort...
Four in One. Two brothers, Armand and Lucien Roux, both opticians, have spent 17 years at the process, working in their fifth-floor laboratory in a drab building on the Left Bank. Fortnight ago they invited famed Writer-Producer Marcel Pagnol to see some test shots. Greatly excited by what he saw, Pagnol (The Baker's Wife, The Welldigger's Daughter) asked to take some color shots of his own. They turned out so well that he decided to shelve the black-&-white film on Franz Schubert (La Belle Meuniere) which he had just finished, and shoot...
...Magazine of the Year, was in trouble. To save its strength, it had lopped off its circulation department (about 30 employees) a fortnight ago. Last week, in a Manhattan Federal Court, the pocket-sized cooperative magazine tried kill-or-cure medicine. Publisher Walter Ross asked permission to reorganize under the National Bankruptcy Act, listing liabilities of $581,425 and assets...