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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: Symphony No. I (the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). When Beethoven wrote his first symphony at 29, he was beginning to shake loose the shackles of Haydn and Mozart, to hurl thunder on his own. Conductor Walter doesn't miss a clap-or any of the symphony's considerable charm. Recording: good...
...this point, another woman Diet member, Miss Toshi Matsuo, wandered into view. Izumiyama, his eyes lighting on Miss Matsuo, straightened, smiled, politely offered to shake hands. "But instead of then freeing my hand," Miss Matsuo exclaimed, "he held it tight and pulled me." Miss Matsuo was saved by a bell summoning her and other Diet members, drunk or sober, to the night session, which convened at 8:47 p.m.* The Finance Minister, however, did not respond. He stretched out on a sofa in the corridor, and lay there, face up, eyes closed...
...much light. What gives her bewilderment a special quality is the firm, almost prim, dignity which she sustains even in the animal moments of Virginia's madness. She is excellent in the little scenes of rebellion-carefully preserved from the novel-with which Virginia tries to shake off her fate. And she can speak lines of questionable worth with a childish innocence that takes the curse off their calculated pathos-as when she says during a picnic with her husband: "Then I've lost another day. I don't suppose I'll ever find...
Take That. For a mild man, and the begetter of Friendship Trains, Drew Pearson has had more drawn-out feuds than an Irishman could shake a shillelagh at. The loudest was the one with Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, which started when Tydings called for. a Senate investigation of father Paul Pearson's regime as governor of the Virgin Islands...
There'll be more Crimson teams operating in Cambridge this week than you can shake a cliche at as the winter sports squads get going in earnest. The varsity squash team starts things off this afternoon when it meets the Harvard Club of Boston, and tomorrow night, the varsity and freshman basketball teams both open their home seasons against North-eastern at the Blockhouse, and the hockey team goes after Brown bear at the Arena...