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Flemish Choral Music (Ghent Oratorio Society conducted by Marcel de Pauw; Esoteric). Thirteen delicately tinted songs for chorus, and two guitar interludes, all glowing with Old World warmth The 104-voice chorus sings with charm and intimacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Asia's No. 3 war is going well. Thirteen months after he arrived in Malaya with a directive from Churchill to clean up the Communists, High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer announced last week that mass detentions and deportations are no longer necessary. Hated regulation 170, under which the British have arrested and screened whole villages, kept more than 10,000 suspected Communist collaborators in concentration camps and deported 761 others, was abolished. "We are about where I hoped we should be by this time," wiry General Templer told the Malayan Federal Legislative Council, with about as much optimism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF MALAYA: Success Curve | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...better rebounder than a scorer, made five field goals on jump shots and drive ins, to keep the Crimson in the game and bring his total to 13 points. Dennis scored 20 on six field goals and eight out of eight free throws, while Sacks had 19 on thirteen free throws and three baskets. Harvard made 31 of its 36 foul attempts...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Sacks Sets Free Throw Mark as Yale Tops Five | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...trucks, which had not been damaged, were picking up boxes made by competitors and stamped with his name, and delivering them to his customers. Connelly found the empty 25-acre plant of a closed down iron foundry just outside the city limits, and bought it for $500,000. Thirteen labor unions got their members to work round the clock to rush it into shape. But he still needed machinery. Machinery makers combed their order lists, persuaded customers to let them divert $300,000 worth of equipment to Connelly's greater need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Helping Hands | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...Faculty Committee on Educational Policy originally recommended giving two credits for the entire program, only to have the faculty up the ante to three. As it now stands, the minimum degree requirement includes some nineteen percent of ROTC work. While a one-credit cut would only reduce this to thirteen percent, every extra course makes the degree mean more in terms of intellectual development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arms and The Humanist: II | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

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