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DIED. Leonard Rose, 66, world-renowned cellist, admired for the technical mastery and elegance of his performances in solo work and chamber groups; of leukemia; in White Plains, N.Y. Rose was a brilliant, dedicated teacher whose students included the virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell and many cellists in America's top symphony orchestras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 3, 1984 | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...mention composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein '39 and cellist Yo-Yo Ma '75, writers John H. Updike '54 and Peter B. Benchley '61, poets T.S. Eliot '10 and George Santayana '99, and a multitude of others...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: State of the Arts | 10/12/1984 | See Source »

...gigantic yo-yo consists of a platform weighing more than a ton and hanging under the side of the balloon, an eight-mile cable and a 130-pound "monkey...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Up, Up and Away | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Mayman says that the celebrations will include bringing back alumni who went on in the arts--such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 and Peter Sellars '80, the new artistic director at the Boston Shakespeare Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Year Long Festival | 9/23/1983 | See Source »

Many legal experts consider the decision an aberration and hope that other courts will ignore it, but the new test will hardly make it easier to protect trademarks. Among those lost over the years: Thermos, Aspirin, Cellophane, Zipper and Yo-Yo. Xerox fights desperately with ads and public relations efforts to keep its name from slipping into generic usage. The makers of Sanka are waging the same war. Anspach had sold 525,000 copies of Anti-Monopoly before he was stopped. (Parker Brothers sells more than 2 million of the original each year.) He now hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Flunked Tests | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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