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...writes his music for titans." Mainly for that reason, Composer Sessions, 64, enjoys a doubtful distinction in contemporary music: he is more often seen than heard. To make "the music as well known as the name," Northwestern University and the Fromm Music Foundation last week sponsored the first "retrospective one-man exhibition" of Sessions' works. In three days the audience heard ten compositions-or more than half of Sessions' lifetime output...
...Robertson scored 23 points (he sat out much of the second half), fed teammates for 14 baskets, a league record for all-star games. For putting on one of the greatest one-man shows in the history of the N.B.A., Robertson was given the game's most-valuable-player award, another proof that at the age of 22 he has become the finest all-round player in basketball. Said the West's Coach Paul Seymour: "He was excellent. He was great. He was spectacular...
Father Calder never quite understood what his son was up to, but he raised no objection. He died in 1945, just two years after Calder had his first big one-man show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The fame of the third Alexander Calder, the father of two daughters, was now the greatest of all, but his own mother, who died last year, could never quite believe it. "You should have seen his father." she once told a critic. "He was a real sculptor...
...Army demonstrated a cheap ($30), light (4½ Ibs.) tank killer: a one-man bazooka with an expendable plastic firing tube. Each firing tube may be used several times, and a G.I. can carry at least five of its rocket charges. Every bit as powerful as the two-man, 20-lb., $175 bazooka it is meant to replace, the "XM-72 Rocket Grenade" is a companion piece for the foot soldier's 90-mm. recoilless rifle. Between the two, says the Army, ground outfits will have the antitank weapons they need. "We hope to issue them like hand grenades...
...Such as Britain's Revised Version (1885), the U.S. Revised Standard Version (1952), and one-man translation of the New Testament by James Moffatt (1913), Edgar J. Goodspeed (1923), Msgr. Ronald Knox (1944) and John B. Phillips...