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...musical shrine. Today Berliners, East and West alike, are enjoying a month-long festival of the composer's music to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Mendelssohn's death in 1847 at age 38. Herbert von Karajan led the Berlin Philharmonic down the high-flavored paths of the Scotch Symphony. The Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin gave the first major performance in 149 years of Mendelssohn's early (but mature) String Symphony No. 10. Even his mammoth oratorios were heard in churches on both sides of the Curtain...
...effects on fetuses became known. Over the years he had reporters follow the litigation between the more than 400 English families involved and the giant Distillers Company Limited, one of whose former subsidiaries distributed thalidomide in Britain. Distillers, maker of the world's bestselling brands of Scotch and gin, made financial settlements with some of the families in 1968. But the majority of the cases dragged on while the deformed children grew toward adolescence and the burden on their parents multiplied...
...When the Saints Come Marching In." Weeks told the crowd that it was toe early-to predict any election results, spent the rest of his speech thanking the crowd for their support and then introduced his wile and four children. He then retired to a downstairs seen with a scotch and water, and the crowd went back to dancing and laughing...
...best clue I have yet found to explain the nature of the Nixon campaign was scotch-taped to Maxine Paul's Hotel Roosevelt wall. Miss Paul is an intelligent woman, and we should think about her campaign-time advice: Do Not Cry Because The Sun Has Gone, For Your Tears Will Blind You To The Stars...
Underwritten by the 3M Company (Scotch tape, etc.), which contributed $105,000 of the show's $140,000 cost, VD Blues is, in fact, as timely as anything that is likely to appear on TV this fall. Gonorrhea, which many people may believe was eliminated with the advent of penicillin, is epidemic in the U.S. today, and even more dangerous syphilis is not far behind. According to public health authorities, there were 700,000 cases of gonorrhea reported in the first six months of 1972, with many thousands more unreported...