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...days before the festival was to open, while rehearsing his orchestra in the slow movement of Schubert's Fifth Symphony, Pablo Casals, 80, suffered a coronary thrombosis. Doctors, including Boston's Paul Dudley White, summoned to Puerto Rico by Governor Luis Munoz Marin, were optimistic about recovery, hoped that with complete rest he might even be able to play and conduct again in the future. But Casals' friends sadly faced the likelihood that his 'active career as a musician was over...
...Marin County, Calif, last week, young Mike Zeller, a senior at the Sir Francis Drake High School, added an observation of his own that is as good a summary as any of the plight of the American student: "We all have the feeling," says he, "that we're not going to get into the college we want to. When I was a sophomore, older kids told me that it was tough to get into college. But I didn't believe it. When you're a sophomore, you want to have fun. I wish somebody had made...
...Hult-berg's Yellow Sky (TIME, May 2, 1955), and including Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Across the hall was a first-rate collection made up of nothing but onetime nonwinners: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley and John Marin. Said Corcoran Director Williams: "We know from the statistics of previous shows that only three or four of the exhibitors will be names to conjure with in the year 2007. Which ones are they...
...political pressure on A.F.P. had become so powerful that when brawny (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.) ex-Havasman Jean Marin took over as its news director, he vowed to win "complete independence from the public power." Last week, under a bill passed by the French Senate, A.F.P. set up its first autonomous board of directors, controlled by French newspaper editors. To help increase revenues to compensate for discontinued government subsidies, which in 1956 totaled 50% of the agency's $8,600,000 budget, France's 146 dailies will be charged up to 30% more for A.F.P. service...
...first news conference after the election, Muñoz Marin declared the entire matter of the island's relationship with the U.S. a closed question for at least the next four years. "There are more important objectives in Puerto Rican life to be attained, and it would be a waste of time to discuss the political status," he said. Then he gave an ambitious example of the kind of objectives he had in mind: "The Cabinet and I have engineered a plan of effective work for the next four years-including rehabilitation of our agriculture to bring...