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From a man who saw Brahms plain and studied under César Franck came a dirge for modern music. Asked by a London newsman which 20th century composers seemed likely to stand the test of time. Paris-born Maestro Pierre Monteux, 86, flatly replied: ''I don't see any, except perhaps Stravinsky." In a tart catalogue of inadequacies, the peppery new conductor of the London Symphony went on: "Mahler, he won't live; he's an imitator. Prokofiev, I don't think so. Shostakovich, no. Hindemith, no inspiration. Bartok: I give...
Hopefully, the photographs were fed into "Franckenstein," a machine developed by Lab Mechanic Jack Franck, which automatically measured the curvature, angle and length of the star's lines and recorded the data on a punched card. Then Professor Arthur H. Rosenfeld fed the cards into a digital computer set up to search for stars that suggested the presence of an invisible intermediate particle. Only 93 of the 2,500 stars showed the computer what it was looking for. Carefully reexamined, the stars proved that when an antiproton hits a proton, it sometimes creates five mesons-two positive pions...
...CONCERT. The fifth in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's yearly forays into Cambridge. The program is scheduled to include Darius Milhaud's La Creation du monde, Schumann's Violin Concerto in d (soloist: Henryk Szeryng), and Cesar Franck's Symphony in d. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Tickets at Symphony Hall, or at the door...
Divorce Revealed. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 66, Philadelphia playboy and World War I draft dodger, who fled to Germany in 1920, came home in 1939 and served almost five years in Army prisons during World War II; by German-born Berta Franck Bergdoll, 52; after 34 years of marriage, eight children (including Son Alfred, a Korean War draft dodger); in Charles City, Va., last April...
...Except for listeners to the BBC's Home Service, which had just launched into Cesar Franck's tired Symphony in D Minor, decided not to interrupt it, and held back the news for 35 minutes...