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...been waiting 71 years. A capacity crowd of 2,573 discovered that the new $10 million Orchestra Hall is a winner, with truly superior sound. The term for the way in which a stage projects sound into an auditorium is "throw." Orchestra Hall has a throw that even Tom Seaver might envy. As Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski's opening program of Bach, Ives, Stravinsky and Beethoven made clear, the new hall also has remarkably even dispersion of sound (with slight exceptions in some of the side balcony areas), admirable balance and clarity, a striding bass and an exciting musical presence...
...troublemaker. He and his roommate, Cleon Jones, were supposed to be fomenting revolution. This is the sort of analysis you expect from Eric Sevareid. Sure enough, Mrs. Joan Payson, who owns the Mets, turned out to be a big contributor to the Committee to Re-elect. Tom Seaver and Ed Kranepool and so on used to appear on Sesame Street about once a week, but still...what about the Cambodian kids...
...dozen publishers, but he had no reputation, no work to show and no agent. Most houses "would write back and say, 'Sorry, fella, no one wants to buy a first novel about Viet Nam.' " Eventually, George Braziller, publisher of the antiwar book 365 Days, and Edward Seaver, his fiction editor, saw half of the final draft and advised Rubin to keep polishing. So did Wife Maura, whose job as a consultant for conservation groups in Washington allowed Rubin to stay home in Alexandria, Va., and write...
...benefit of both Yogi Berra and his jealous teammates. No longer will the crowd roar when Mays gets up from the bench to get a drink of water--there won't be any more standing ovations for a few cuts at the air. But as long as Baby-Face Seaver and the rest of his no-hit, no-field comedians continue to come to the park, the rest of the league will be hard-pressed to beat them--though nobody knows...
...defending champion Baltimore Orioles, if they have a weakness, have kept it quiet through spring training. As usual, they have a power-packed lineup, solid defense and one of the best pitching staffs in baseball. Jim Palmer, the A.L.'s answer to Tom Seaver, is ably backed by Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar and Doyle Alexander...