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...Varsity will face determined opposition from a well-balanced Army team that has led eastern play this season. Eleven other eastern squads will vie for top honors in the annual event...
...least 35 contenders will vie for glory for themselves and their House in the annual inter-House boxing tournament which starts at 3:00 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon...
...moon-faced German Fritz Busch. This week the New Opera revives Verdi's Macbeth, seldom heard in the U.S. since 1850. Other revivals: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, whose lush melodies and story of a gambler's fate have pleased European but not U.S. audiences, and La Vie Parisienne -Offenbach's satire on the gaslit vulgarities of France's Second Empire...
...Pediatricians used to vie with each other to see who could find the earliest age to give infants solid foods. One even fed meat to toothless three-month-olds. But now doctors generally stick to milk, wait for a few teeth before feeding babies solids. As for the transition from bottle to cup, Dr. Aldrich suggests placing a cup on baby's feeding tray, waiting till he starts to play with it and tries to drink...
...survivors of the International Brigades of the Loyalists. Singer van der Schelling is backed by an "Exiles Chorus" directed by Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans). Some of the songs-the Spanish Joven Guardia, the Italian Guardia Rossa, the German Thaelmann-Bataillon, the French Au Devant de la Vie (music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding march time. The one which gives the album its name was composed by a German, Eberhard Schmitt, in the camp at Gurs. Its chorus, translated (not quite so lame in the original...