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...more cogently than any words. That was in 1907. For reasons unknown. Violinist Geyer never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left the manuscript to Swiss Conductor Paul Sacher. who performed it in Switzerland in 1958. Last week Violinist Isaac Stern, playing in Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra, introduced Bartok's long-lost concerto to New York concertgoers...
...airborne 503rd Battle Group, part of General Isaac Davisj White's Pacific Army command, can move out of Okinawa in two hours. These paratroopers know their way around Laos-like terrain: they recently completed maneuvers in the Philippines...
...Died. Isaac Frederick Marcosson, 83, tireless, traveling journalist, who scarcely missed a world maker or a world shaker while logging more than 250,000 miles from 1907 to 1936 as correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post; of a stroke; in New York City. Marcosson wrote some 30 books, including David Graham Phillips and His Times, a 1932 biography of the muckraking reporter who was shot down in 1911 while strolling in Manhattan's Gramercy Park by a crazed violinist who imagined that Phillips had defamed his sister in print. Marcosson was a friend of Phillips and the "tried...
...USARPAC (U.S. Army Pacific), ramrodded by a dapper New England tactician, General Isaac Davis White, chafes under the knowledge that, for all its experience gained in Korea, it is still the orphan of the Pacific. In an area that demands a maximum of mobility, the Army must make its plan without any guarantee that it will get the ships or aircraft to move it where it has to fight. Army soreheads grouse that Felt would never use a soldier while there was a marine left in the Pacific. In the Pacific, perhaps the Army's most significant contribution...
...Isidor Isaac Rabi, 62, became a scientist, he says, for one overpowering reason: "I couldn't help it." Brought to the U.S. from Austria as an infant, he has never forgotten his mother's daily query when he came home from public school on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "Did you ask any good questions today?" For a brief period Rabi (rhymes with hobby) did try the workaday world outside the laboratory?he analyzed furniture polish and mothers' milk; he ran a Brooklyn newspaper until it failed?"then came the vision, I found physics and myself." His experiments in molecular...