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The concluding Sonata No. II in E flat major (Op. 120, No. II) by Brahms got the finest performance of the evening, and nearly deserved it. Though Doktor occasionally had problems with undesirable harmonics, in the lower register he coaxed forth the best rich tone of the viola. Under his...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Paul Doktor, Viola | 3/3/1962 | See Source »

Durrell is sloppy about his grammar and careless about facts. Thus a spiritualist of the 30s is shown receiving otherworldly messages "from Edward Gibbon and Ramon Novarro to such of their descendants as might still be living." Novarro, a spry 62-year-old living in North Hollywood, is to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maze with a Moral | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

Amidst the generally sloppy play of last weeks' games appeared one bright spot for the Crimson--the return to form of captain Gary Borchard. Borchard, a second-team All-Ivy selection for the past two years, scored a total of 50 points against Yale and Brown.

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Basketball Squad to Oppose Penn | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Last November smallpox erupted with more than usual violence in Karachi. It has killed at least 267 people and made many more sick. But not until five infected Pakistanis had flown the disease to England did Pakistani Health Minister, General Wajid Ali Burki, crack down on Karachi's sloppy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Swift Smallpox | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Growth is an article of faith with Californians. They can scarcely wait for the promised day-perhaps no more than a year off-when California will overtake New York as the most populous state in the Union. (The 1960 census gave New York 16,782,304 to California's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Next: the Slurb | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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