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Those already picked would do credit to any campus. Often against advice from brother officers ("They said I was selling my career short"), the new professors have chucked everything, as one of them says, "to get a tremendous educational institution started." Head of the law department is Colonel Christopher Munch, 40, a West Pointer ('43) with a law degree from the University of Illinois, who says: "I'd rather do this than anything in the Air Force-including Judge Advocate General...
...sailplane enthusiast, the best things in life are a cramped cockpit, a long slender wing, a stout updraft, and unending miles of sky. Given these things, plus ice to suck and fruit to munch, he will soar hawklike for hours on invisible fountains of air, wrapped in a silence so absolute that he can hear the faint whistle of a train passing below. Last week, in the 28th annual national soaring championships at Wichita's municipal airport, the pick of the U.S.'s 2,500 sailplane pilots were living the good life high above the Kansas plains...
...north Schleswig village of Nolde (he did not change his name until he married, at 34, in 1901), he identified himself with the bleak environment of north Germany, acquiring an outer taciturnity and an inner turbulence shared by those other brooding giants of the north: Norwegian Edvard Munch and Belgian Recluse James Ensor. As a peasant lad, Nolde was early given to hallucinations. By night, "the cracks in the peeling walls became faces and fantastic shapes." By day, he imagined raging storms racing across the flat meadowland near the North...
...much some artists can convey just in the eyes! Look at the torment in Sweden's greatest dramatist, Strindberg, as Norway's greatest artist, Edvard Munch, captured it; or the intensity in Shahn's Freud; or the burning glance of Stuart Davis' James Joyce; or the clown's proverbial subdued sadness in Loren Maclver's Emmett Kelly...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch Conducting, plays at Tangle wood (Lenox, Mass), in the 1961 Berkshire Festival from July 5 through August 20. At the Festival 15 concerts by the Full orchestra will be given, plus six chamber orchestra concerts of music by Bach and Mozart, seven chamber music recitals, and two guests will be Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Monteux, Eugene Ormandy, Arthur Fiedler, and Richard Burgin...