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¶ Princeton's Henry Morris Russell, 69, grey, wispy-haired professor of astronomy. One of the world's leaders in his field, he developed a way of measuring movement of stars by photography, established giant and dwarf star groups, was one of two Princeton men to win doctorates...
For his two weeks with the New York Philharmonic, Munch scheduled nine pieces by six Frenchmen. In his first Manhattan appearance last week, critics panned his Ravel and Debussy (they thought he overdid them), but cheered the first U.S. performance of French Dissonantist Arthur Honegger's Third (Liturgique) Symphony...
Croteau is not the sort of man you'd expect in the wispy levels of morality. He stands with his feet firmly in the muck, in full knowledge of what goes on in Boston, and why, and whom to go to see to have it stopped. His great lament is...
The display looked like a schoolgirl's botany project. The little green leaves and wispy roots, neatly mounted on 14 neat white sheets, had pretty names-O Cheng Cho"v, Ti Chai Tzi, Sweet Chrysanthemum. But the exhibits of grass and herbs, no trophy of a schoolgirl's...
As he leaned back in the deep sofa, his heavy head perched squarely on his chunky body, Mr. King seemed to have no neck at all. As he talked, his only motions were slight oratorical gestures with the hands, an occasional smoothing of his wispy grey hair. Once in a...