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...preface to the anthology he was reviewing. And it is somehow endearing to know that the same hand that wrote The New Yorker's sane, knowledgeable review of James Joyce's recently discovered fragment Giacomo Joyce, also turned out the epic 1960 farewell to Ted Williams, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu...
...competent reading of Peter Mennin's Canzona and the concluding Ten Thousand Men of Harvard the band tackled a parvum opus of Anton Bruckner: the March in Eb, "originally for street band," as Walker announced with pain. The thing never should have been arranged for modern band, and HUB was roundly hissed for it--and hissed back, according to tradition...
...soon after the fighting died down, Jones was not thinking about going back to the farm. "I realized that this place was kind of a hub in the Pacific. I thought it would be fun to come in and start with nothing and pioneer this thing." He saved up $3,000 for a start, but lost almost half of it in a poker game on the way back to the U.S. With his remaining funds, he bought cheap watches, jewelry and trinkets, and sent them to a Guamanian friend to sell. To get back to Guam as a civilian...
...Only a week beyond the end of the football season and undoubtedly depressed by the sight of a bare hundred people scattered sparsely through Sanders Theatre, the Band sounded dispirited and underrehearsed. Intonation throughout the concert was of the sickly sort one expects from a band but which the HUB usually avoids. In the first half, it was all the Band could do to get through the notes, let alone do anything with them. This was particularly noticeable in the Hindemith Konzertmusik fur Blasorchester, the most massive and probably the most difficult work on the program. There are always...
...British departure is all but complete. The tax-free shops of Aden's Steamer Point, which once swarmed with cruise-ship tourists, are now boarded up and deserted. The Crescent Hotel, hub of colonial life, is virtually empty. Aden harbor, no longer a port of call, was filled last week with the glowering grey warships of the British fleet, including the 43,000-ton aircraft carrier H.M.S. Eagle. All but 3,000 of the 12,000-man garrison have already been evacuated by ship and plane, most to British bases in Bahrain or Masqat and Oman; the rest will...