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...Oilman George Strake, is trying to raise $1,900,000 more for a permanent endowment. Thus, because of the dream of two of its priests, St. Louis is now well on the way to becoming an outstanding world center for the study of Western thought. Among the filmed treasures it will have: the 4th century Codex Vaticanus, one of the oldest and most important copies of the Bible; the 6th century Codex Marchalianus, containing the complete Old Testament prophets; the original manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles...
...Alan N. Riselbach'53, whipped out a five-length victory over the Poonie crew. Rowing an upstream course from the River St. to the Weeks bridges, the Crimson got off to a quick start and was never headed. At one point, the Poon's stern four raised the strake to a heady 24, but its bow four resolutely stuck to a 14. Much comment was elicited by the Poon's use of the unique "centipede" style of rowing...
...Rouner, strake of the lay 1951 eight, Steve Hedberg, number five on the 1951 variety, and on-Crimson coxswain George Walker are catering a pair-cared shell with a cox. The three have been practicing all spring on the charies, and went to Red Top with the heavies last week. They are now at Worcester in the final training period...
Koussevitzky's interpretation of the Ninth made clearer and even more awesome the strake simplicity of Beethoven's music. The opening bars of the first movement, just simple open fifths descending in the strings, were built up inexorably to the first statement of the theme by the whole orchestra in unison. It is a simple dominant-tonic progression, the first thing taught in an elementary harmony course. Simple means indeed, but nothing more overpowering has even been written...
...Dateline: Europe he adds a split to the already dual personality of Rosten and Ross, in a glib, neatly joined short novel about a foreign correspondent. Laid in Belgovenia, it covers the adventures of Peter Strake and girls in an abortive Putsch, drips conversational tinsel like a Christmas tree, is neither standard Ross nor Rosten. As one character says: "It's like a cross between Graustark and the Arabian Nights, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim." Authors McCutcheon, Scheherazade, Oppenheim might object, but to most readers Dateline: Europe will seem like a versatile slip which can do Author Rosten...