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...ndel-Beecham: Ballet Suite from the Faithful Shepherd (London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Since the singing eunuchs of the 18th Century, for whom it was written, went out of style, Händel's opera The Faithful Shepherd has been a flop. But its stately, gentle ballet music, resurrected by Sir Thomas Beecham, is still as fetching a job of periwigged melody as ever came out of the 1700s...
Louis L. PERKINS Rector The Church of the Good Shepherd Shelton, Conn...
...seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough to survive the regency...
Last week the official London Gazette announced that "The King has been graciously pleased to give . . . the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" to Fred Mitchell, Head Shepherd, North Somerset, for "brave conduct in Civil Defence...
Gnarled, dimple-chinned Fred Mitchell, 45, was watching his sheep with a crook and a sharp-muzzled sheep dog one clear, shriveling-cold January night at the Home Farm outside Abbots Leigh village near Bristol. The sirens screamed at 5 o'clock, and Shepherd Mitchell was immediately surrounded by a blaze of 20th-century horror. Incendiaries fired his straw-and-wattle lambing pens, sheltering 34 ewes and lambs. High explosives followed the incendiaries and scared the wits out of the sheep dog, who promptly went A.W.O.L. for 24 hours. Alone, Mitchell fought the fire till the flames crackled near...