Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phinney was the fourth Crimson runner to finish in the recent heptagonal meet held in New York ending up in sixteenth place. A half miler, he won his minor numerals last year in track. He is nineteen years old and a graduate of Brown and Nichols...
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor (Vladimir Horowitz, with Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). The piece which most people know (from its opening themes) as Tonight We Love, Concerto for Two, etc., gets a brilliant recording, with "The Old Man" driving his Son-in-law Horowitz and the orchestra without mercy...
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor (Chicago Symphony, conducted by Frederick Stock; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Dr. Stock and his men, specialists in warm, romantic works, give this one a much-needed new recording...
...world's great legends, the Byron story will stand almost any amount of retelling. Retold by Peter Quennell, the result is a minor literary event. Reason: Peter Quennell probably knows more about Byron and the romantic movement than any man alive, tells what he knows in a cadenced Bloomsbury prose that is only now & again too self-consciously elegant. As no one appreciates better than sly Author Quennell, a biography of Byron is ipso facto a novel by Proust...
College to Cope with Minor Damage...