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...Communists, who still want to rush to the barricades, are pushed out of the party, many by the "respectable" device of being refused support by the Communist machine in local elections. All the fighting, for the present, will be done on the barricades of bureaucracy. Slovenly, shambling Mauro Scocci-maro, noted for his long, unwashed hair, dirty shirts and doctrinaire stubbornness, holds office as Minister of Finance; but when Premier de Gasperi drops him, Party Boss Togliatti does not even put up a fight. This is no time for unwashed comrades. Togliatti himself sets the fashion of what the well...
Hovhaness and Cage: Piano Compositions (Maro Ajemian at the piano with Alan Hovhaness assisting at piano, gong and drums; Disc, 4 sides). Hovhaness composes with ancient Armenian instruments (tar, kanoon, oud and saz) in mind, achieves a marimba-like effect on Jie piano which is near-hypnotic in its insistence on repeated notes. Maro Ajemian performs John Cage's Amores, I & IV on a Cage "prepared piano" (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) which gives off intriguing thwacking sounds, graduated in pitch and timbre. Performance: excellent...
...front, Maro Beebe, Johnny Burton, Caleb Loring, Al Everts, Tommy Ayres, and Bill Harding are all in the running, and they will probably emerge in some combination as the first two lines. Tom Cowen, veteran defenseman, is taking a month off to catch up with his studies...
...winning sire, Sturdy Max, which Owner Ellis had bought for $2,500 from Sturdy Dog Food Co. This year Dwight W. Ellis withdrew Max from competition because he could not bear the thought of Daro's beating Max. As it was, Daro outshone his littermates Dora, Mora and Maro. Owner Ellis bred only for utility until two years ago. has since had success on the bench with dogs bred for both use and beauty. Sturdy Max was sturdy. Daro has been trained by Handler Charles Palmer to fetch pheasants as well as sprout feathers...
...Last line of "The Syrian Dancing Girl," a poem attributed to Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil...