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...road. Actually the orchestra is older than the state; it was known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra when Arturo Toscanini led its first performance twelve years ago. Tel Aviv's Ohel Shem hall, where the orchestra usually plays, holds only 1,100. There the orchestra repeats each concert nine times to accommodate the crowds. It has played on, undismayed by blackouts, air raids, or the impertinent obbligato of small arms fire. In July another American guest conductor, Izler Solomon, conducted a concert at an army camp outside Tel Aviv while Israeli troops were attacking Arabs at Lydda airport, only...
...bluntest words to the medicos came from Dr. Herbert Ratner, head of the Student Health Service at Loyola University School of Medicine. Dr. Ratner, a Jew converted to Roman Catholicism nine years ago, accused modern medical schools of sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled...
Talk of the Track. For nine months he galloped horses as an exercise boy, practicing with short stirrups and short holds. Last New Year's Day, at New Orleans' Fair Grounds, he rode his first race. Twelve days later he rode his second race and first winner-aboard a $52.10 long shot. From then on, he was the talk of the track wherever he went (Lincoln Downs, Narragansett Park,Suffolk Downs, Jamaica...
Representatives from nine colleges in the Boston area attended the meeting. The delegation from each college was assigned a line of business to enlist in the program...
Twice in the evening, before the half and just before the final whistle, the Bruins cashed in on poor ball-handling and defense work by the Crimson. The first time, they made up a nine-point deficit, narrowing the half-time Crimson load to 23 to 30. A series of three field goals coming among a flurry of fouls Inter ended the game with Barclay's squad still clutching a two point margin...