Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Robert Shaw Chorale, NBC Symphony and soloists conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor, 2 LPs). Beethoven's most massive vocal work. Cruelly demanding on both singers and listeners, it was performed only once during his lifetime. It is no less demanding today, and some of the strain shows in this version. The Maestro gives it a feeling of magnificent urgency despite the fact that the soloists sound faint and distant...
Better Mousetrap. A disposable, plastic, cylindrical trap that relieves the housewife of having to touch a dead mouse was brought out by Shaw-Randall Co., Inc. of Pawtucket, R.I. (The mouse, attracted by odor of grain, walks into "Sanitrap," eats poison pill, is paralyzed and killed. Tube, mouse and all are then thrown away.) Price...
...professional courtesy whereby doctors treat each other and their families free has boomeranged and hurt the health of all concerned, Seattle's Dr. Merrill Shaw told the American Academy of General Practice. Physicians try not to bother their colleagues for minor ills or regular examinations, and often wait until it is too late. "If I had had a doctor who kept regular watch of me . . . my illness would have been detected long before I found it myself," he said. Dr. Shaw's plea had to be read in his absence: he is dying of cancer...
...Habebit Humus. In Stafford, England, Violet Shaw, 64, learning that her late husband already had another wife when he married her in 1938, sued his estate for breach of promise...
Also elected to the Committee were: Brian F. Reynolds of Lowell, Mass. and Adams; Samuel E. Shaw H of Enfield, Conn. and Lowell; John W. Stakes of St. Davids, Pa. and Leverett; and Peter Strauss of Great Neck, N.Y. and Winthrop...