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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maestro Arturo Toscanini landed on the dock in Manhattan, hale and chipper after a four-month sojourn in Italy and what he announced would be his last boat trip. "I enjoyed the voyage," admitted the 82-year-old perfectionist, but it took too long: from now on "I prefer air travel...
...that his students should be "pauperes et indigentes," and set an upper limit of ?3 6s. 8d. on their annual income, but few real "pauperes" ever got in. For centuries, most of the appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head. If the platter broke before the head...
Like many a younger child, the University of California at Los Angeles has long been jealous of its big sister at Berkeley, the University of California. Though U.C.L.A. has sprouted into something of an Amazon itself (present enrollment: 14,983), its graduates think it has sometimes been treated like a gangling adolescent. One graduate gripe: though Berkeley has had a law school for years, U.C.L.A. had none...
...sundown one day last week, in almost every corner of the world, skull-capped cantors put the curved Shofar (ram's horn) to their mouths and blew long, wailing blasts. Thus, Jews were called upon to take stock of their souls. It was the beginning of the two-day period of Rosh Hashana, the sacred celebration of the New Year 5710,* and the start of the ten High Holy Days which end Oct. 3 in Yom Kippur...
...Long before Luther, writes Father Lortz, "there existed in the Catholic Church herself much that foreshadowed the Reformation . . . In other words, the so-called 'causes' of the Reformation had their origin within the limits of the Catholic Church . . . That means the Reformation had important Catholic roots...