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DIED. Nadia Boulanger, 92, Mademoiselle le Professeur to three generations of composers, including America's Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and Roger Sessions; in Paris. Though a promising composer, she taught indefatigably for five decades and had great influence on such American-born artists as Classicist Roy Harris and Experimentalist Philip Glass. She was also the first woman to conduct London's Royal Philharmonic, New York's Philharmonic and the Philadelphia and Boston symphony orchestras...
...soir Monsieur le professeur Morize assistera a un diner apres lequel il nous dira quelques mots. Tout membre de l'universite qui s'interesserait sera le bienvenue. La reunion aura lieu dans le Lowell House Common Room a dix heures vingt precises...
...more potent than most statesmen is alert, tactiturn M. le Professeur Charles Rist, fiscal expert of the Bank of France. When he and his corps of secretaries descend in these days upon a minor European capital local Treasury officials are in a panic, hope for a loan, fear disclosures. In Bucharest last week M. le Professeur Charles Rist made an announcement which rocked the Kingdom of Rumania...
Investigation has disclosed, intimated M. le Professeur, who never speaks for publication, that the Royal Government has pursued for the past ten years a budgetary policy of letting expenditures exceed receipts. Public works have been unproductive to the point of threatening the stability of Rumania's depreciated currency. Professor Rist advised wholesale weeding out of superfluous Government employes, salary cuts of 50% and further drastic retrenchments. For the Bank of France to extend any more loans to Rumania (longtime "Little Ally" of France), he concluded, is in these circumstances totally unthinkable...
Significance & Screams, Though M. le Professeur Charles Rist did the actual work of execution last week, the French Government has long been in a mood to force the Rumanian Government back to the path of sound finance and moral decency...