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Despite a limp (one leg is shorter than the other), he has rolled more perfect (300) games, 68 in all, than anyone else. He can and does bowl with either hand, with both at the same time, with his foot. In Detroit, where bowling goes biggest in the U.S., he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Greatest | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Most of the 40 acts, moreover, are good; the best of them are breathtaking. On terra firma, the Rachellis-Borgianas tumble with unusual style and precision; "Natal" looks and frisks for all the world like a monkey, but turns out to be a man; Equestrienne Claude Valois and others offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rites of Spring | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

"Our Work Is Finished." What were Togliatti's motives, and what did he achieve? The paramount fact was that the Communists' support of the Vatican coincided, with jeweled precision, with the new Italian Communist strategy of shifting attention and activities from the industrial north, traditionally anticlerical, to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Father Palmiro's Party | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

The two opening Palestrina works, a Sanctus for high and a Supplicationes for low voices were, perhaps, the best of the sacred offerings. The Radcliffe group has mellowed in the past year, although an absence of really first-rate soprano voices is still evident in the lovely Sanctus. Singing the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/26/1947 | See Source »

Throughout, the impression was unavoidable that in both choice and interpretation of selections, too much stress was laid upon seeking works notable either for their historical significance or textual content. Tone, precision, sonority--the overall musical possibilities open to some 200 mixed voices were not given enough weight. In the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/26/1947 | See Source »

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