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Robert J. Flechtner Jr., 29, a slim Christian Scientist who works as a paper salesman, likes to tinker with hotrods on the side...
...studio near his 15th century farmhouse nestled against a limestone cliff, overlooking vineyards and crouched cottages in the chateau country of Touraine. The sculptures bear terse, functional names, such as Dog, Long Nose or Snowplow, tower above the trim countryside. Yet, the neighbors call Calder "le Bricoleur"- the Tinker-because he is always willing to pause from his work and shape a tiny bright metal toy for one of their children...
There are 136 pyramidal ceiling reflectors for sound, but no one is eager to tinker with them. At its opening, Scharoun's new hall seemed acoustically excellent as Von Karajan filled its angular spaces with squiggles of sound from softest pianissimo to heftiest fortissimo, leading his firstchair men through a delicate movement of a Haydn string quartet and then the full orchestra through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Critics breathed sighs of relief over the splendid sound-function, it seemed, had not been betrayed by revolutionary form...
Died. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 86, Yale's great teacher of English literature (among his students: Stephen Vincent Benet, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish. Thornton Wilder) and the university's keeper of rare books, world-renowned for his 1925 discovery of a supposedly destroyed collection of Boswell papers; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Tink's literary sleuthing uncovered the papers in Ireland's Malahide Castle, but he was unable to persuade Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson, to part with the vast trove. It remained for Lieut...
Colonel Ralph Isham, a wealthy Manhattan collector, to accomplish that, and in 1949 he passed the papers on to Yale (for a reported $500,000), where at last they were published (seven volumes so far) and became part of Curator Tinker's rare books collection...