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...sleepy farm town of 1,700. It has now become the shopping center for a population of about 50,000. Desperately hanging on to its best tourist lure, Scottsdale bills itself as "The West's Most Western Town," last week held its annual Parada del Sol rodeo. But money has turned Scottsdale into a form of effete West, a place of fabulously expensive watering spots (suites up to $120 a day) and chichi stores such as a custom perfume shop, which composes a unique aroma for each lady customer...
Conditions for judging the Moscow players were not ideal: at the insistence of Impresario Sol Hurok, the Russians were offering a straight Tchaikovsky repertory during the first two weeks of their stay, with no other classics and no modern works. (Muttered Permanent Conductor Konstantin Ivanov, who wanted to play more Beethoven: "I suppose King Hurok knows best.") Under the 52-year-old Ivanov and 45-year-old Kiril Kondrashin. one of Russia's most active guest conductors, the 106-man Moscow symphony displayed some solid virtues and some marked weaknesses. The Russians attacked their Tchaikovsky less fiercely than many...
...played Impresario Sol Hurok's wife in a George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...
...grid of clashing poles clapped together in an accelerating syncopated rhythm. The dancers-many of them in their teens-showed a simple, unsophisticated enthusiasm that kindled a sense of joy in the audience. At a party after the opening night performance they decided to express their gratitude to Impresario Sol Hurok by serenading him as "Lolo," meaning Grandfather. They picked that particular form of address, one Filipina explained seriously, "because he has been so helpful to us; besides...
...Calmette and Guerin, a strain of weakened microbes used in vaccination against tuberculosis (TIME, Sept. 23, 1957). Later exposed to virulent TB germs, these animals resisted disease and lived out their normal life span. Those in an untreated comparison group sickened and died. Follow-up tests by Dr. Sol Roy Rosenthal at the University of Illinois showed that BCG, wafted in 10 million times its own volume of air, "took" in 27 of 30 children and young adults, who are now believed to have a high degree of immunity against TB, though it cannot be proved...