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...Coolidge began a series of chamber music festivals in her newly finished Music Temple on South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this...
...credit side, the M.E.s found that A.P. stories are getting fresher and brighter. Readability Expert Dr. Rudolf Flesch, hired to teach clear and simple writing (TIME, Feb. 16), said that the A.P.'s output is less monotonous than a year ago, although it still needs sprucing up. Best of all, the A.P. seemed to be growing aware that the changing nature of the news is forcing it to report not only what happened...
...history and evolution of coniferous trees will be the subject of the 1948-49 John M. Prather lectures, which will be given this year by Dr. Rudolf Florin, Swedish paleobotanist...
Austrian in Edinburgh. Last week the man who blueprinted the festival could relax. With justifiable pride, Rudolf Bing could say: "We have sold a quarter of a million tickets in three weeks, not for a sporting event, but for Mozart operas, a Greek tragedy [John Gielgud's production of Robinson Jeffers' Medea], Hamlet in French and high-class orchestral music...
...help unlard the A.P.'s avoirduprose, Gould hired Readability Expert Dr. Rudolf Flesch (TIME, Feb. 16). There are signs also that the A.P. is getting over the timidity that makes it (for fear of offending one of its 3,900 members) almost objectionably objective. "We have a duty," said Gould's log, "to give the reader some idea of how near the truth a broadcast or communique may be . . ." And the A.P. is encouraging its own Managing Editors Association to find fault. Many an M.E. thinks the world's best news service could still be considerably improved...