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Recipients are Rosamond D. Drooker '53 and 1G, Dorothy Dean '54 of Gilman, and Nancy Fisher '54, of Moors. Miss Drooker will study music in Salzburg; Miss Dean will continue her study of fine arts; Miss Fisher's award is to England...
...ECHOING GROVE (373 pp.)-Rosamond Lehmann-Harcourt, Brace...
...Nietzschean argument holds that an intelligent woman would prefer a 10% stake in a superior man to 100% ownership of an average one. By that test, Madeleine and Dinah, the English sisters and heroines of Rosamond Lehmann's The Echoing Grove, rate low I.Q.s. For they spend the better part of 20 years and 373 pages scrimmaging for a soggy, half-deflated male football named Rickie, and the rest trying to run with him toward the goal post of happiness. Since Rickie develops a debilitating ulcer and dies, neither of the girls makes it. But their tribulations are guaranteed...
...Rosamond Drooker is one of those rare pianists who can completely immerse herself in everything she plays. Her music affects the listener so directly that technique and interpretation are all but forgotten. To refine these out of existence is the essence of real musicianship, and Miss Drooker demonstrated Wednesday night that she is a real musician...
...much of The General's Wench is devoted to bedroom doings that it easily gives the impression of being just one more piece of execrably written pornography. It says on the jacket, however, that Rosamond (Kitty) Marshall's real intention is to portray "the fabulously rich 18th century days of the East India Company . . . one of the most stimulating periods in all history...