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...AFTERNOON CONCERT--Handel-Suite No. 6 for Harpisichord; Bruckner-Symphony No. 3; Beethoven-Piano Trio op. 1 no. 1; Honegger-Sym. No. 5; Bachby Joyce Smith...
From his father, Paul inherited Roman citizenship, the most potent status sym bol of those days, but he was also raised as a strict Pharisee, a member of the intellectual and spiritual elite of Judaism...
First and foremost the Harvard Band is music. It can delight a Sym phony Hall audience or make the home stands rise with cheers to the strains of "Harvardiana." No band plays music quite as well. Whether it's the right choice of medleys, the special balance of the brasses, or something quite technical doesn't really matter. The Harvard Band has that something which makes the fight songs enthusiastic, the marches sharp, and the show tunes lively...
...special classes of 20 and with sym pathetic teachers, they began to pick up their three Rs rapidly. One ten-year-old who had been stricken with rheumatic fever and missed a year of school gained a year's credit in reading, picked up eight months in all his other studies; another child, whose insecure home life had made him hate school, gained 1½ years in all his work, now argues to go to school even when he is sick. By Christmas vacation, teachers could report that the 100 students had doubled their proficiency in reading, spelling, arithmetic...
...most startling car on exhibit was a stubby, dome-shaped auto that runs on electricity. Built by two French brothers, Maurice and Casi Loubière, the Symétric-Paris has a four-cylinder, 45-h.p. gasoline engine that turns a generator which, in turn, supplies current to four motors tiny enough to fit inside the wheels. If the cars were on sale to the public, the brothers estimate that the price might be about $1,000, but the French Ministry of National Defense has other plans. It is putting the car through exhaustive tests that may result...