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Mozart: Concerto No. 4, K. 218 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Heifetz is too often sleek where cleanliness, clarity and simplicity are called for. Recording: good...
...sleek black torn roaming the Herne Hill Nursing School under the name Panda...
...Unnoticed by the Times two years ago was the death of an even more famous cat and mother: Sally, a sleek, green-eyed Persian owned by pawky Sunday Express Columnist Nat Gubbins. The proud mother of 126 kittens produced at the rate of 2½ kittens a throw, Sally always treated Gubbins' ribald remarks about her fertility with cold disdain. During the war she conducted a long and frosty correspondence in her master's columns with a Russian cat who advocated scientific speedups in kitten production. At the ripe age of 14, Sally died giving birth...
...sleek silver and polished oak plaque now adorns the Alumni Bulletin offices, attesting to the "high level of editorial achievement" the magazine attained during the past year...
Admirals & Cookery. For one more week of jubilee, the Queen will formally reign (during the past 3½ months she has been in retirement while Juliana acted as Regent). Holland was bathed last week in an orange glow of jubilee excitement; in Amsterdam orange lights glittered from the sleek façade of Heineken's brewery, and evergreen trees with orange lights lined the roads leading to Het Loo (meaning "The Woods"), the Queen's summer palace. (At Het Loo the Queen herself was busy discussing with Juliana the apportionment of the House of Orange's considerable...