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...hopes and aspirations" for the Radcliffe Library-Study Center were pinned to a dozen red balloons yesterday evening and sent off into the black sky of the future, whereupon they lodged themselves irrevocably into an overhanging tree...
...Carnegie Hall when the New York Philharmonic moved out distressed him because that meant one less stage big enough to seat 96 musicians. So he, Violinist Isaac Stern and some others blew the whistle on the wreckers, and Stokowski founded the American Symphony as Carnegie's new tenant-whereupon the U.S. Government designated the hall a national landmark. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 44, went up to affix the plaque on the wall outside, but Stokowski took the Arizonian up to the podium, to show him where all the wide open space...
...Hint, 41. He had cut a disk with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, so this time it was Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 69, guesting it high on the revolving stage of Hirt's Bourbon Street hangout. "Where are the other 90 musicians?" Fiedler began, raising his baton, whereupon the six-man combo beat him to the beat by hurtling into Trumpeter's Lullaby. "We only have one rule," Al explained kindly. "The one who finishes first gets to play the ending." Since Fiedler had never really started in the first place, he made the grand finale by cracking...
Daylight Savings Time ends tomorrow at 2 a.m., which will become Sunday's second 1 a.m. when you set your clock aright, whereupon, a single hour later, will come another 2 a.m., following which the world will continue to turn on schedule...
...Tories than Foreign Secretary Rab Butler had a go at it. Campaigning in Manchester, Home had said that the U.S. and Britain had ready a treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons that "could be produced at a moment's notice" for Russia's signature. Whereupon Butler declared airily in an interview that "we've had a chat about it with the Americans," but that there is no such treaty, adding, "After all, I would know. I'm the Foreign Secretary...