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...Bloch: Concerto Grosso for Strings and Piano Obbligato (M); Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K. 614 (C); Hindemith: The Four Temperaments (E); Handel: Solomon (A); Imbrie: Quartet in B flat (C); Locatelli: Elegiac Symphony (W); Haydn: Trio...
...flurry of excited advertisements in the Brazil Herald glowed of fabulous land bargains in the wilds of the Mato Grosso plateau. Over a Rio television station, a warm-voiced announcer sold stock by posing an enticing question: "Does your money really work for you? Some of the luxuries of this world can be yours-a beach, a home, a boat, an airplane." Such were the latest come-ons of expatriate U.S. Swindlers Benjack Cage (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) and Earl Belle (TIME, Aug. 4), and they seem to prove that good con men, like cats, land on their feet when...
Widows First. Cage set up quarters in a lavish suite at Sāo Paulo's Jaraguà Hotel, decided that all the Mato Grosso needed for a land boom was the old backslapping hard sell. He fixed his selling price at $2 to $5 an acre. What if the land is remote (and no more fertile than tracts being peddled by Mato Grosso State for 35? an acre)? One day the wilderness would bloom. Said Realtor Cage, nobly: "I'm going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha...
...Spread. In 1953, when Ruschi was bat-hunting in the back-country state of Mato Grosso, he found a cave piled three feet deep with dead and dying vampires. This looked promising, so he collected sample bats and hurried them to his laboratory. From them he isolated germs that will spread from bat to bat and kill them in 120 days. "The long incubation period is good," says Dr. Ruschi. "It helps the victim spread the disease before he dies...
...concert opened with a vigorous performance of Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso for four solo violins. David Hurwitz, Ronald Hathaway, Katherine Gratwick, and Ruth Miller performed the solo parts with consistent vitality and precision, if not perfect intonation. Although the contrast between the ensemble and the concertino group was not as great as it might have been in a larger orchestra, the string section demonstrated once again its brilliance and fullness, while Mr. Senturia emphasized the formal power and relentlessness of the concerto...