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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical hero of Paris last week was a 27-year-old pianist from Long Branch, N.J. (pop. 23,000) named Julius Katchen. Two thousand filled the Theatre des Champs-Elysees to hear his program of Brahms, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, cheered up four encores and, at the end, crowded around the stage shouting for more. Verdict of the serious-minded critic of Paris-Presse on the performance: "A miracle of faith and fervor...
...plot is simple: A condemned father tells his two children, John and Pearl, where he has hidden ten thousand stolen dollars and makes them swear they will never disclose the secret. Most of the book concerns itself with the attempts of the father's released cell mate to make the children reveal the money. It is the ten year old son that is the hero of the novel. Never quite grasping the significance of "those green pieces of paper," protecting his trusting five year old sister from the sinister hunter, he endures hardships as only a child could: "the most...
...action of the Ecclesiastical Courts of England, nearly two thousand rectors and vicars, one-fifth of the total number, were expelled from their parishes on the ground that their refusal to renounce heresy rendered them "unfit for office." In the years which followed, they suffered penury and misery. But, by holding their ground, they, and others with them, so aroused the conscience of England that the Ecclesiastical Courts were abolished--three hundred years ago! Today, in the United States, teachers and others, on grounds of political heresy, are likewise being declared "unfit for office." How shall the conscience...
Amid beer mugs and squat oak tables, a group of Lampon pundits gathered solemnly in 1901 to discuss a new proposal. The Lampoon, despite its ample "beer nights," had cleared one-thousand dollars that year, and the Treasurer hoped to use the money to begin a building fund. The idea was accepted enthusiastically, for Lampy had already outgrown two homes, Thayer Hall and a room on Mt. Auburn Street. The third location, a small closet in a former Holyoke Street church, was equally unsatisfactory...
Grays was built on the site of Harvard's first dormitory, the "Old College." In 1642, the teachers of the College decided to establish a "more Collegiate way of living" for their pupils and, drawing one thousand pounds from John Harvard's legacy, they built the "Old College." Modeled for beauty instead of endurance, the building began to totter twenty-five years later and was abandoned. The super-functional design of Grays, lacking the Victorian flourish of its period, indicates that its creators sacrificed beauty to avoid the fate of the "Old College...