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...Chessin Gertler, another student who plans to attend Harvard next fall, also competed in the tournament and advanced to the quarterfinals before being ousted by the eventual champion, top-seeded Christopher Gordon...
Wildlife traffickers often launder items: if a country bans the export of a species, smugglers spirit animals into a nearby nation that permits their export. An official of an accommodating government can be bribed to list his country as the origin of items. Says Paul Gertler, a biologist with the federal wildlife permit office: "Inspectors at ports of entry are put in the position where they have to take the word of another government...
Oliphant and DeMoulin win, decisively, over Kidd and Smith. "Awesome!' cries DeMoulin afterward, his trophy in hand. "I am psyched." JJ. Gertler, a formidable Amherst also-ran, is chatting "Don't you want to be in politics, J.J.?" friend asks. "Oh, my gracious, I hope not," he says. "We hope not too," chimes a passing victor, and Gertler, only momentarily speechless, manages a game smile...
...morning"). Deeper feelings blurt through only in a sentence here and there ("Nothing except painting and writing is really interesting nothing can be quite so important as child bearing"). Such revelations are surrounded like desert islands by a sea of gossip: "Lord Esher has forbidden Brett to live with Gertler . . . Fame has come to me with her arms full: Lady Colefax has invited me to tea ... There's Kitty Maxse falling over the bannister and killing herself...
Bartok: Quartet No. 6 (Gertler String Quartet; English Decca, 7 sides). Bartok's six quartets are possibly the most impressive since Beethoven; in the finer moments of this last quartet (1939), as in Beethoven's last, the great breadth and depth of the composer is revealed clearly and simply. Performance and recording: good...