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...wider and wider audiences if interest in the instrument is not to die out. He is building a reputation as one of the most imaginative harpsichordists in the U.S., giving some 20 solo recitals a year and lecturing about the music he plays. Valenti has begun a musical marathon: recording all 555 of Scarlatti's gemlike Sonatas (for Westminster). In the past three years he has completed 72, but half seriously wonders whether he will ever be able to finish...
...robed and bearded priests of the Greek Orthodox Church exercise unquestioned moral authority from Edessa to Marathon. But Orthodox majorities attract Protestant minorities, and the Greeks are no exception...
Some of the details include running the Teletype machine, proofreading copy ("including correcting my spelling," adds Collins) and taking dictation, sometimes at a marathon pace amounting to 35,000 words on a cover story. One of her longest dictation stretches was on Dday, 1944, when correspondents were alerted to report local reaction. It was an all-day running story, with Mary sitting in the office taking the copy on the phone-"one of the few times when life in a news bureau was like life on a newspaper in the movies...
...York, city-owned, noncommercial station WNYC announced that it will devote all next week to one program series -an examination of U.S. education. This marathon, arranged to mark the station's 30th anniversary, will push every program except music and news off the air. Participants range from such college presidents as Harvard's Nathan Pusey, Columbia's Grayson Kirk and Colgate's Everett Case to TV's erudite (M.A. Columbia '39) Comedian Sam Levenson, who is billed as a "Teacher and Human Being." Among the more than 100 topics: "The Vanishing Report Card...
...Boston, Finland's Veikko Karvonen, runner-up a year ago, won the annual (since 1897) Boston Marathon. Time: 2:20:39, one minute and 48 seconds off the record...