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Unchanging as always, however, is that Word of Cheer passed from one friend to the other before the grip of schedule and test tightens again. Although the snow may have at first frightened the Spring Term optimist, awakened like the Freshman who has overslept an exam, he is now reassured and ready to pass along advice. The new term does, in fact, promise more than the resulting slush and returned exams. If all goes well, there will be as many disarmament plans as there are new atomic weapons, and Marlon Brando will not sell his motorcycle. In all events...
When Spain's Civil War was waning in 1938, famed Spanish Cellist Pablo Casals moved just across the Pyrenees into France, vowed that he would not return to his homeland so long as it remained in the grip of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. But last week aged (78) Musician Casals sadly broke his self-exile, went back to his birthplace, the little Spanish village of Vendrell. After he had buried his longtime friend and housekeeper, Francisca Capdevila, in Vendrell's tiny cemetery, lonely Pablo Casals once again turned his back on his homeland, again crossed the mountains...
First Fan. Once before and once shortly after she left dramatic school, Grace turned down $250-a-week movie contracts: "I didn't want to be just another starlet." Now Hollywood reached for her again but failed to get a firm grip...
...night five years ago, when young Thomas Schippers was conducting Menotti's The Consul on Broadway, he got so excited that the baton slipped from his fingers and sailed over his shoulder into the audience. Since then, Conductor Schippers (pronounced shippers) has kept a firm grip on his baton, earned resounding kudos for his performances at the New York City Opera, guest stints with symphony orchestras, and this season, for another Menotti opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week Kalamazoo-born Conductor Schippers, 24, won his golden operatic spurs: the Metropolitan Opera signed...
...International Harvester, a key fortress of the Red-led Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers union has been the Rock Island (Ill.) Local 109, with more than 3,000 workers employed at the Farmall tractor works. Two years ago, Local 109 leaders had such a firm grip on the rank and file that the C.I.O. United Auto Workers withdrew an application for an NLRB election for fear of being trounced. Last week the U.A.W. went into a second NLRB election with no intention of quitting...