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...typical fashion, Harvard won the 36-hole GBC with a 42-stroke margin, and swept the first three individual places. Freshman Alex Vik, wunderkind of the golf team, won his second championship in four days, with rounds of 69 and 73. This blistering 142, an even par total, gave him one of the lowest scores ever recorded in the history of the tournament...
Actually, by the time the Vienna-bred Korngold landed in Hollywood in 1934, he had behind him an astounding career as a musical Wunderkind in Europe. When he was a teenager, his works were performed by Pianist Artur Schnabel and Conductor Bruno Walter. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his third opera, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), was staged at New York's Metropolitan Opera. In the leading role of Marietta was Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her Met debut. The American public took to Jeritza but not to Korngold, and after a few years it forgot...
...toast one another with champagne. They had ample cause for celebration: their ten months of experiments on a "transfer factor" in animal immunology had produced spectacular results, gaining publication in scientific journals and the attention of immunologists round the world. Furthermore, one of the group, Steven Rosenfeld, an undergraduate Wunderkind who had started the research as a summer project-had just been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
Died. David Oistrakh, 66, Soviet violin genius; of a heart attack while on tour; in Amsterdam. Raised in the musical hothouse of Odessa's Jewish community, Wunderkind Oistrakh rose rapidly through the conservatories and concert halls of the Soviet Union. In the cold war November of 1955, Oistrakh's first Carnegie Hall recital melted American critics. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy, businesslike performer, Oistrakh produced music with a luminous, flawless tone. In his last years, he grew into a first-rank conductor as well. On hearing of Oistrakh's death, American Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
Peter Van Delft, a District 65 organizer who is apparently the wunderkind of the university clerical workers organization, was once again in town this week, spreading the word at Phillips Brooks House, among other places...