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...followed his finger. On the way I fell in behind three students en route to a second-hand bookstore. They talked something like I did 25 years ago at Heidelberg and Ohio State, but slightly modernized...
While unusually skillful in difficult modern styles, the singers gave the early music somewhat second-hand treatment. Two choruses by Schutz and Sweelinek exhibited some of the worst tenor tone the Glee Club has ever offered. The sound of Carissimi's Jepthe seemed much richer, but it was still only a routine performance of a routine oratorio. The program's success, despite Baroque appendages, lay principally in the stimulating compositions of our own time...
...Korea three years ago he knew all the problems of an "R.A.E." (right, above elbow) case. He had studied the latest techniques at New York City's Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, and he arrived in Korea with three spare arms for himself, plus 60 second-hand legs and the makings-joints, screws, webbing, leather strapping, billets of English willow -for 80 more. He was also ready to set up a limb-manufacturing plant in Korea...
...this Christmas there will be no party. The toys people have offered so far have been rejected or sent to some other charity. The second-hand paper bags C.Y.O. staffers saved all year to fill with candy were thrown away unused. The staff itself was decimated and depressed; Bishop Sheil of Chicago never goes to the C.Y.O. offices any more...
...splashy Kinbasha nightclub were offering their hard-earned MPCs for 10? on the dollar. One geisha house announced bitterly that henceforth it would do business "for the Japanese yen or the green American dollar only." An Army captain who had been trying for two months to sell his second-hand car for $2,100 was besieged by frantic Japanese car dealers offering him up to $5,000 in MPCs. In Korea the black-market price for $10 MPC dropped from 3,500 to 100 hwan by nightfall. Koreans pursued G.I.s for blocks offering as much as $700 MFC for their...