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Wine-Smeared Likeness. During various other jaunts to London and his famous ramble through the Hebrides with Johnson, Boswell is at his best. The pictures he draws are wine smeared and flecked with spittle, but they catch a brilliant likeness: Oliver Goldsmith fuming because he cannot break into a conversation...
The orchestra plays well; the chorus is small enough to give a clear account of the pitches. Unfortunately, the soloists' pitches are sometimes obscured if there is too much vibrato going. When four men are singing dissonances, vibrato must be drastically reduced or a clinging fog prevails. And Robert Oliver...
In preparation for this series, Jordan examined every will or other discoverable document from the period before the Tudors until after Oliver Cromwell. Through these papers, he was able to discover almost every gift or bequest to charity and then to follow the charities launched or aided by these funds...
Died. John Oliver La Gorce, 79, longtime writer (1905-59) and editor (1954-57) of the National Geographic Magazine, who reported scenery and customs from remote parts of the world where he constantly traveled, gave his name to a glacier in Alaska, a mountain peak in Antarctica, and an island...
Died. Oliver Ellsworth Buckley, 72, president (1940-51) and board chairman (1951-52) of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., member (1948-54) of the general advisory committee of the Atomic Energy Commission; of pneumonia; in Maplewood, N.J.