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Commuters who ride the M.T.A.'s Watertown trolley--in to Harvard Square each morning, back to Watertown each afternoon--might be surprised to learn that the friendly, diffident-looking man who travels with them every day is one of the greatest scholars in the world. Indeed, at times that fact seems to surprise and embarrass University Professor Werner Jaeger himself. Last month, for example, when the Classics Department held its first meeting of the year, the chairman congratulated Jaeger on the two high honors he had won over the summer and asked him to explain just what the awards were...
...Trolley Song (Dave Brubeck Quartet; Fantasy 45 r.p.m. single). One of Pianist Brubeck's and Alto Saxman Paul Desmond's most popular numbers, unmasked. One side of the disk has the finished product; the other shows how it was put together in rehearsal. "Hard to keep up," murmurs Dave as he fingers a tricky accompaniment figure. "Listen,'' he warns his combo. "If I'm going to play this, boy, I want you guys in on the beats you're playing as hard as you can play . . . umpeta-pah, umpeta-pah . . ." The bass man thumps...
...skinned and blue-eyed, used to tell Thurgood and his brother Aubrey, "If anyone calls you nigger, you not only got my permission to fight him-you got my orders to fight him." Once, Thurgood followed orders. Delivery boy for a hat store, he was trying to board a trolley with a stack of hats so high he "couldn't see over or around them. I was climbing aboard when a white man yanked me backwards. 'Nigguh,' he said, 'don't you push in front of no white lady again.' I hadn...
...children at camp, he gets drunk and Nancy leaves him to go on by bus. When Steve picks up a hunted criminal, he sees in him only the man who had the guts to lash back at life. In an ending that mixes brutality with insights, Steve gets his trolley back on the tracks, but not before Simenon has made ordinary lives seem to be at the mercy of extraordinary tensions. True Simenon fans will probably regret the hopeful last page, but even in life shock treatments sometimes work...
...Plan in less than three years. Bulganin's reward was an assignment to succeed Kaganovich as chairman of the Moscow Soviet-in effect, Mayor of Moscow. Bulganin built boulevards and six bridges across the Moskva River. From Britain and France he imported such "improvements" as a fleet of trolley buses and a set of spanking white gloves for the capital's traffic cops. Bulganin worked with Kaganovich and Khrushchev, then a district party boss, on the building of the Moscow subway. With Georgy Malenkov, then the chief of Moscow party cadres, he purged the party apparatus...