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Perhaps poets like T. S. Eliot (whose cat Macavity was a being of singular depravity) or those who are as sensible as Dr. Johnson (he had a cat called Hodge and he fed it oysters) or as mad as Edward Lear (who had a cat called Foss which resembled an owl) should be permitted to write about cats. A cartoonist like the late great Herriman, whose Krazy Kat spoke a wild, weird kind of New York Yiddish in Coconino County, Ariz., also belongs in this noble company. Not so Thomasina. Cats may be useful animals to have around any house...
Among Gilmor's six wins have been four pins, the greatest number on the team. He has lost only once, to Cornell's Steve Friedman. He will face Princeton's Brad Foss...
Ives: The Unanswered Question (Zimbler Sinfonietta conducted by Lukas Foss; Unicorn). A cheerfully enigmatic work by the first U.S. modernist, Charles Ives (1874-1954). Against devout, sustained strings, a quartet of flutes and a solo trumpet superimpose progressively more insistent dissonances, but finally they retire, defeated by the mellow strings...
There were immediate and powerful pressures on President Eisenhower to sign the bill. Four Republican governors from the farm belt (Iowa's Leo A. Hoegh, Kansas' Fred Hall, Nebraska's Victor E. Anderson and South Dakota's Joe Foss) got an appointment for this week at the White House to urge a signature. The 15 Republican Senators who voted for the bill, led by Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, also wanted to present their case directly to the President. For the most part, the argument of these Republicans was that, politically and economically, a bad bill...
...city's most distinguished citizens appeared on the stage. Debonair, white-haired Vladimir Golschmann, 62, bowed; this Parisian son of Russian parents was obviously very much at home. Then he turned, and whisked his baton over the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. On the program: Pianist Lukas Foss, playing his own Concerto No. 2. Conductor Golschmann has led his orchestra for 25 years-longer than the tenure of any other U.S. conductor now working...