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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tapestry of Sound. Imbrie's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra shone in a galaxy of impressive premieres: Ernest Bloch's Quintet No. 2 for Piano and Strings, a vigorous, passionate work whose rich coloration took on a special sheen in the sonically clean, echoless hall; Darius Milhaud's Eighth Symphony, describing the flow of the Rhone to the sea, which happily combined the gusty exuberance of the Frenchman's early works with the sunny lyricism of his later ones; Roger Sessions' serene, atmospheric Quintet with Two Violas, performed without its third movement, which the composer...
Yardley is a graduate aeronautical engineer whose basketball career began when he sandwiched practice sessions between trips to the lab at Stanford (class of '50). He shone as a member of the Stanford varsity, but he really learned the game, he says, when he got out of school and joined the A.A.U.'s high-pressure "amateur" league...
...every tourist folder says, the Caribbean is a land of contrasts. Froude can write of standing on the waterfront at Kingston in Grenada: "The off-shore night breeze had not yet risen. The harbor was as smooth as a looking-glass and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water. The silence was only broken by the whistle of the lizards or the cry of some far-off marsh frog. The air was warmer than we ever feel in the depth of an English summer, yet pure and delicious and charged with the perfume of a thousand...
...hall, where marble columns were decorated with vines, and the walls were lined with great banks of pink carnations. Greeting 93 big-name dinner guests, the Eisenhowers, with Elizabeth and Philip, led the formally dressed procession over a red carpet into the dining room. There a huge horseshoe table shone with the James Monroe gold flatware (engraved with "The President's House") and gold-rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling, frozen Nesselrode cream with brandied sauce) the President...
Eyes & Noes. In election year 1952, the growing spotlight on the Eisenhowers shone even to Korea. It took John a while to get used to what he called "notoriety." And Eighth Army brass, worrying over the possibility of his capture by the Communists, tried hard to keep his frontline whereabouts a secret. On Election Day, John listened to the returns by radio in his tent. Three months later, John was on hand to see his father inaugurated as President of the U.S.-by special order, at first unknown to Ike, of outgoing Commander-in-Chief Harry Truman...