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...entire dynasty of Bach Society Orchestra conductors participated in the orchestra's final concert of the season Sunday night. The founder of the orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, led the first Boston performance of Berg's Kammerkonzert for Piano, Violin, and thirteen Wind Instruments; next year's conductor, John Harbison, made a brief debut; and Michael Senturia made his last appearance as conductor of the orchestra. It was a very nostalgic evening...
...Thirteen members of the Faculty and research staff have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for 1958, Henry A. Moe, Secretary-General of the Foundation, announced yesterday...
...Thirteen years after the Dervishes of the Mahdi killed Britain's famed fanatical General Charles Rogers ("Chinese") Gordon at the end of a ten-month siege in 1885, Lord Kitchener returned for revenge and to forestall French expansion in the area, slew 10,563 Dervishes in a brief pitched battle at Omdurman. Among Kitchener's cavalry subalterns in the battle: Winston Spencer Churchill, then...
...thirteen winter sports teams stand on the winning side of the ledger as they start their second semester schedule after the exam period layoff. Crimson teams have won a total of 50 contests and lost only 20 thus far this winter for a percentage...
...adds that, despite a popular impression to the contrary, "our over-all record in varsity intercollegiate competition has been entirely respectable. During 1956-57 Harvard varsity teams won thirteen and lost nine contests with Yale." He recognizes, however, "that for some this good over-all record may not completely compensate for the sting of particular losses...