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Died. Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, 65, top-rank radio and film (The Arkansas Traveler, I'm from Missouri) comedian of the '30s and '40s; of cancer; in Encino, Calif...
Last week Prades was in its annual bloom, and admirers followed the proud, stubby figure of the 78-year-old Catalan exile through the town and crowded his little house. Said one peeved old Pradesan: "If Casals scratches, they have to scratch the same place." But the top-rank musicians who came to Prades were hardly less worshipful. "What does Prades mean to a musician?" said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin to a reporter who caught him strolling through town in shorts, with a bunch of daisies in his hand. "It means the chance to play with Casals. Why does [Pianist] Eugene...
...Westerners, Japanese art spells woodcuts. This pains the Japanese, who are justly proud of their brush drawings, Buddhist sculptures and painted screens. But like American jazz, Japanese woodcuts succeed in expressing a popular culture precisely. The unique charm of that culture was amply displayed this week when some 350 top-rank Japanese prints went on view at Chicago's Art Institute...
...caught up with yet. He's just started reading August of 1944, from which he learns that Allied forces are making a daring thrust for Paris. Hitler, at this point, is in a fury over the plot to assassinate him, and has begun a purge of top-rank Nazis...
With more people coming to the colleges, he adds, there will naturally be a concurrent increase in the number of highly intelligent applicants. With more top-rank people to choose from, admissions policy could become much more select...