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Speaking in a broader vein, Anthony, a Negro, discussed the problems faced by white students who work in the civil rights movement. He spoke calmly and quietly, alternating ironic humor with a tone of personal intensity...
After the intermission, however, Mme. Crespin seemed much more in the recital vein, and in a Faure and Debussy group she made her musical and dramatic points less through sheer impressiveness of voice than by a happy talent for shading and nuance. An eloquent performance of three of Wagner's Wesendonkleder explained in part Mme. Crespin's great success at Bayreuth; opera audiences must have responded as well to the unmistakable aura of the Grand Manner which hovers about her. In this age of slenderized divas, Mme. Crespin remains a satisfyingly ample woman, and on Thursday night she managed with...
...General Alfred M. Gruenther, 63, onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and now president of the American Red Cross, in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital after surgery to tie off a vein that was causing an inflammation of his lungs; Dick Powell, 57, actor and prolific television producer, convalescing at home in Hollywood after radiation treatments for cancerous growths detected in his neck and chest...
fiction. Yet today, four books and some 2,700 pages later. James Jones, at 42. looks more and more like a one-shot author. And irrepressible Jack Kerouac, 40. twelve volumes and some 2,200 pages from his first success, seems a confirmed one-vein literary minor...
Fact is, each year one out of every thousand women under 45-regardless of whether she is taking Enovid, or aspirin, or no drugs at all-will have an attack of thrombophlebitis. In a few of these cases, a blood clot from an inflamed leg or pelvic vein will travel to the lungs and cause serious illness or death. The danger that this will happen is known to be markedly greater in pregnant women...