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...second half of the season, the orchestra has added two more to swell its record membership to 82. Joseph Cacciati '54 played bass violin for two years with the National Symphony of Washington under Hans Kindler. Another pupil of Richard Burgin, Barbara Sorenson '52 enlarges the violin section...
...Pupils learned their first geography and geology on long walks at Pestalozzi's side. They learned their numbers by counting stones, their letters from alphabet blocks, their fractions from squares cut up into halves, thirds and quarters. "Let [the pupil] see for himself, hear, find out, fall, pick himself up, make mistakes," said Pestalozzi. "What he can do for himself, let him do; let him be always occupied, always active...
...Colorado General Hospital. She had been walking near a granite quarry where blasting was going on. Suddenly a stone came hurtling through the air and struck her on the head. Examining physicians discovered that besides paroxysms of vomiting, the patient had a fixed dilation of her left pupil. Furthermore, blood seemed to be seeping from her left ear, and she complained of double vision. Confronted with such classic symptoms, the doctors made a speedy diagnosis: head injury...
...doctors with her faked injuries, she confided, had been easy. She bragged that she had been in more than 50 hospitals from coast to coast, and in only one (San Francisco's Southern Pacific Hospital) had a physician got wise to her. The queer dilation of her left pupil was caused (she thought) by a mastoid operation when she was 14. She bit her lip to get blood which she placed in her ear. ("I made it appear to squirt from my ear by shaking my head.") Vomiting, she claimed, was easy, and her complaints of double vision were...
...family moved from Oklahoma to Los Angeles when Maria was nine, so that the girls could continue their studies. Maria became a favorite pupil of Bronislava Nijinska, sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. In 1942 she moved East, joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. There she was spotted by Choreographer George Balanchine, who began casting her in his ballets, later married her. When he and Lincoln Kinstein organized the City Center company in 1948, he brought Maria along as prima ballerina. Since then, with Russian-trained Balanchine to supply the polish, she has been shining more brightly each season...