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MOZART: QUARTET IN E FLAT FOR PIANO & STRINGS (Hortense Monath and the Pasquier Trio; Victor: 6 parts). Fine-grained, carefully-tooled performance of one of Mozart's important, though seldom played, compositions.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Once launched by Hollywood, badminton broke out all over the U. S. in patches. From Canada, which currently has about 25 of the world's best 30 singles players, including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Badminton's Rebirth | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Seabury included such excellent incitements to worry in his optimistic, informal, 358-page manual on the art of worrying as it is done under the guidance of experts. Like most such cheerful volumes, How to Worry Successfully contains a great deal of helpful advice that is almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toxic Deliberation | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

In company with a good many contemporary European novelists, Sigrid Undset has a faculty for making the life of the past appear rich and meaningful in comparison with the involved perplexities of the present. Her three-volume historical romance, Kristin Lavransdatter, pictured a medieval Norway that was brutal and hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Viking's Son | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Fallible Wires. By no means are A. S. T. M. tests infallible. After satisfying A. S. T. M. specification for strength and flexibility, galvanized annealed steel wires were used for a suspension bridge over Mt. Hope Bay between Bristol and Ports mouth, R. I. Before the bridge was completed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Testers | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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