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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in London to play Othello at Stratford on Avon, booming Negro Baritone Paul Robeson bared for waiting cameras a scrubbier jowl than usual. Reason: he was nurturing his own beard, since "last time I played Othello I used a false beard, but it kept slipping with perspiration." Fellow-traveling Traveler Robeson seemed fit after a spell with the flu in a Moscow hospital, for which he had predictable praise...
...Segovia audience is usually distinguished by its youth and its air of spellbound intensity. Last week, as usual. Segovia played pieces by early, little-known composers, as well as such familiar masters as Bach and Scarlatti, then offered several contemporary works. His six-stringed instrument sounded at times with the shimmer of the harpsichord, at times with the dryly plaintive quality of the lute. Throughout, the instrument's miniature sounds were punctuated with moments of deep, suspenseful silence...
...Things to Do." The Pope's day usually begins about 4 a.m. He bathes, shaves with his old safety razor, meditates and prays until 7 when he says Mass. Breakfast is at 8; until 10 he answers letters, quickly skims the newspapers. He is busy with audiences until lunch, after which he prays in his private chapel, then works until 7:45, when he returns to the chapel to say his rosary. Dinner is at 8, bedtime about 10. Sometimes he varies the schedule by rising around 2 a.m., working a couple of hours, then going back...
...usual theory is that Anatolia was not inhabited by civilized people until about 3,000 B.C., when the cultures of Mesopotamia moved slowly north. But the walled village seems to be as old as anything in Mesopotamia, and heaped-up debris under it hints that the place was occupied by civilized town-dwellers 500 years before the walls were built. So man's first, faltering civilization may have spread from Anatolia to Mesopotamia and later Greece...
Discarding its usual veil of silence, the staid Federal Reserve Board last week issued its harshest criticism of U.S. price-boosting heard in recent years. Up before the Senate antitrust subcommittee stepped the Fed's research director, Ralph A. Young, with the charge that industry's price hikes-notably in autos and steel-cut demand and employment even further during the recession. Industry, he said, "needs to use more often the time-tested prescription of lower prices as a cure for inadequate demand and to resort less to appeals to Government...