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Chasing Whales. Manjiro was the fisherman son of an impoverished Japanese widow. In the feudal Japan of his day, a boy of such low caste could hope for nothing except a life of toil and a full belly each day if he was lucky. But Manjiro was luckier than that. In 1841, when he was 14, the small fishing boat on which he worked was carried out to sea by a storm and drifted to an uncharted island...
Slavenski, a Yugoslav, has written a musical history of the world in this Sinfonia. The sections, are labeled "primitive, Hebrew, Moslem, Buddhist, Christian, Free Thought, and Hymn of Toil." Some of the music, such as the "Primitive" section, is really wild. Throughout, the piece shines with the style of Slavenski, incorporating Eastern ideas of melody with western harmonic practices. He has not quite achieved a satisfactory blend, but he makes effective use of pedal points, repetitions, and modality. While Slavenski is long on imagination and short on technique, the record is certainly without equal in its field...
Practicing the virtues of a true Christian, together with the duties of a perfect gentleman and patriot, President Eisenhower's tested leadership inspires confidence and trust. All those who toil for a peaceful world will wish him Godspeed in a second term of office...
...Path. Patterson's path from Manhattan's slums to his high skill as a professional boxer was filled with pitfalls. As a boy Floyd was "a lonely, disturbed and defiant being-the third in a family of eleven children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed." He was a truant. He ran with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan's Lower East...
...being as a child of his God . . . We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours . . . so that our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships...