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...Time. In Corfu, N.Y., town fathers were trying to replace a policeman, school-crossing guard, water-system operator, snowplow driver, tree trimmer, refuse collector, meter reader and general maintenance man after Leonard J. Gardner quit his $3,225-a-year town job to go to work in a tool and die works...
What with more cherry pie eating and the city's unwillingness to snowplow the streets, human motion in a geographic sense will cease tomorrow and the CRIMSON will not publish until Thursday. For those interested in other dimensions, time and life refused to cooperate and will continue...
Leading the output is a gentleman who drives through the water like a snowplow, Captain Jim Jorgensen. He became the fastest 220 freestyler in the East his sophomore year. Against Yale last March as a junior, the rangy Jorgensen broke his own Crimson record in the 220, set one in the 440 (which he was swimming for the first time), and despite the gruelling length of this event, came back in the immediately following relay with an amazing 53-second leg for the final 100 yards...
Portable Power. Minneapolis' Toro Manufacturing Corp. has introduced a lightweight engine attached to a metal handle that can be hooked up in seconds to a power lawnmower, tiller, edge trimmer or small snowplow. Weighing 39 Ibs., the "Power Handle" contains a 2¾ h.p. engine, is designed to eliminate the need for duplicate power units with each piece of equipment. Price...
Completed in 1936, Carmina Bur ana is Carl Orff's first major work (he destroyed all his previous manuscripts), the piece he calls his "snowplow" because it clears a path with listeners for acceptance of his others, e.g., musical plays based on Grimm fairy tales, poems by Catullus, Greek tragedy. He called it a "dramatic cantata," and meant it to be performed as a theater piece. At 59, still living near his native Munich, Orff no longer writes for the concert hall. Says he: "Melody and speech belong together. I reject the idea of a pure music...