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...children, Teacher Haiker did not pretend to know. But the fact remained that the most unprepossessing boys could expect little love from their school chums. Even glasses were a risk: one handsome fellow got 17 votes as the best-liked boy in his class-until he began wearing glasses. Thereupon, reports Teacher Haiker, his admirers dropped to three...
...score was available for Haydn's Symphony No. 58. His teacher told him that "forty years ago a German publisher [Breitkopf & Härtel] started out to collect all of Haydn's works, but bogged down. It was too expensive and nobody cared." The 13-year-old thereupon resolved that Haydn's work should be collected and that people should be made to care. That was in 1939. By last week, at a heavyset 24, Boston's H. C. Robbins Landon was well on the way to both objectives...
...printer's copy of the first edition of Wagner's My Life, which Wagner himself had suppressed. She made a start at writing, but died, in 1898, before she reached the point in Wagner's life where her material might have shed fresh light. Thereupon, Mary Burrell's collection was locked away. Finally, thanks to Philadelphia's Mary Louise Curtis Bok (Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist), who bought the collection in 1931, and to John N. Burk, scholarly program annotator of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who spent years collating and editing it, the Letters of Richard Wagner...
...days before the congress was due to open, its leaders realized glumly that only a few hundred of the expected 2,000 delegates were going to arrive. Thereupon all but one of the Sheffield sessions-originally scheduled to last a week-were ordered shifted to Warsaw...
When Jeff Wylie, head of our Boston bureau, first called on Robert Frost at his Vermont home to tell him that TIME was going to do a cover on him, Frost replied: "If it is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." He thereupon invited Wylie to stay as long as necessary to get the story. Wylie stayed a week, while Frost poured forth his ideas, interspersed with bits of autobiography...