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Clean Shirts. In 1940 Libby married Leonor Hickey, a young teacher of physical education who first heard about Libby from a friend's maid ("He's not terribly exciting," said the maid, "but he always wears clean shirts"), and still regards him as a goodhearted country boy who wears unsophisticated clothes. "He thinks he's a wonderful bridge player," confides Mrs. Libby, "but he's really lousy." Libby got a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to Princeton, but a few months later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he offered his services to Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey...
Through a long summer she copes with daughters, coddles temperamental Roza the cook, and Toona the city-bred maid, who remarks ominously that "the country is awfully quiet." She gets distractedly involved in the church fair and in the problem of finding an extra man for a "little dinner" ("Charles says . . . he will attend to it. Am stunned with gratitude and surprise...
Naturally I looked forward to the interview as one of the greatest privileges of my life. I reached Helen Keller's home at the appointed time and was ushered into the living room by the maid who said that Helen Keller had to go unexpectedly to New York. Her teacher, Mrs. Macy--her "liberatorr and guardian angel"--had to consult an oculist as she was losing her eyesight rapidly and Helen Keller went with her and her secretary. So while waiting I availed myself of the invitation to look at her library and read any book I wished. In addition...
...Triumph of St. Joan Symphony by Norman Dello Joio. Here they showed a substantial and well-balanced orchestral tone; although occasionally rough, at its best it was rich and exciting. The symphony is an outstanding American work. The three movements follow the story of Joan of Arc as Maid, Warrior, and Saint. The dramatic intent of the music is emphasized by an instrumentation including bass drum, kettle drums, snare drum, cymbals, and bells. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gave it a reading that clearly showed the group's improvement. We can thank Attilio Poto for the new vitality in the orchestra...
...human exhibits proved far from musty. Standouts: ¶ Nora Kaye, 35, who returned to the company (after four years with the New York City Ballet) to revive the famed Pillar of Fire, in which she dances Hagar, the girl who is bitterly afraid of becoming an old maid. When the curtain parted to show Hagar sitting on her house steps, feet together, head and shoulders agonizingly tense, the audience burst into applause: Ballerina Kaye created the part in 1942, and nobody else has ever danced it. Pillar of Fire (set to Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht) established...