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...first big splash three seasons ago by performing a cycle of the six quartets of Bela Bartok for the first time in the U.S., and playing them in a ruggedly impressive manner. With the last note, Russia's Dmitri Shostakovich, who was in Manhattan for a peace-front powwow, rushed backstage with congratulations. A Columbia Records executive signed them up for recordings...
...plus the ubiquitous Ed Gard (TIME, Feb. 26) and two other L.I.U. players identified as "X" and "Y," made a deal to rig the L.I.U.-Duquesne game. The players decided to ask for $5,000-$1 ,000 apiece. But after the game, four of them held a little powwow without "X." "The boys," said Hogan, "were working out a cute one on 'X' ": Gard, Miller, Lipman and "Y" were to take $1,100 apiece and give "X" only...
MacArthur's acting chief of staff for military operations, Major General Doyle O. Hickey, called in the bureau chiefs for a powwow. A precise, genial artilleryman, Hickey asked the newsmen for their ideas on what should be done. At the suggestion of the A.P.'s Russell Brines, the Army set up the Press Advisory Division, a staff of officers who could be consulted on security matters but who had no censorship powers...
...Powwow & Palaver. Next day the solemn powwow was held. "The land where the Chavantes live now is far from the land where the Chavante ancestors are buried," Chief Apoena said. "We ask the powerful strangers for pledges that we shall not be molested here." Apoena was also troubled about "the great bird which flies without moving its wings." Would such birds come often? Mereiles, through his interpreter, said they probably would, but never as enemies. Then Apoena suggested that one day he would like to send what he had "most inside of himself," i.e., one of his sons...
...able to decide until after the Bear Dance," he said. The audience shouted approvingly, "Hou! Hou!" Said another old man: "The land is worth more . . ." Then, after a pause, "Of course, I have some beer in my belly." The Indians retired to a grove of cottonwood trees to powwow. It was not until sundown, three days later, that the rest of the tribesmen outvoted...