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Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony 's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.
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Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony 's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.
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Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony 's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.
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Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony 's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.
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The guest assignments are scheduled for November 14 and 18, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo and the Orchestra of Radio Cologne.
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The season in San Francisco will open with a special Gala Concert on November 22.
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During his five-month visit abroad, Jorda recently conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeau in France, and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome.
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In announcing Jorda 's return, the orchestra also announced that the sale of single tickets for the 50 th anniversary season will start at the Sherman Clay box office on Wednesday.
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In announcing Jorda 's return, the orchestra also announced that the sale of single tickets for the 50 th anniversary season will start at the Sherman Clay box office on Wednesday.
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In announcing Jorda 's return, the orchestra also announced that the sale of single tickets for the 50 th anniversary season will start at the Sherman Clay box office on Wednesday.
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Guest performers and conductors during the coming season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel ; pianists Leon Fleisher, Ruth Slenczynka and Stephen Bishop and conductor Earl Bernard Murray.
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Guest performers and conductors during the coming season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel ; pianists Leon Fleisher, Ruth Slenczynka and Stephen Bishop and conductor Earl Bernard Murray.
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Guest performers and conductors during the coming season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel ; pianists Leon Fleisher, Ruth Slenczynka and Stephen Bishop and conductor Earl Bernard Murray.
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The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pl...
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The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pl...
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The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pl...
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The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pl...
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The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pl...
is
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The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pl...
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The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pl...
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This work is no favorite of mine.
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I am prepared to demonstrate at an ytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; that its presentation in t...
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I am prepared to demonstrate at an ytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; that its presentation in t...
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I am prepared to demonstrate at an ytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; that its presentation in t...
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I am prepared to demonstrate at an ytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; that its presentation in t...
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I am prepared to demonstrate at an ytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; that its presentation in t...
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I am prepared to demonstrate at an ytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; that its presentation in t...
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I am prepared to demonstrate at an ytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; that its presentation in t...
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All of this is true and all of it is totally meaningless in the face of the Kirov 's utterly captivating presentation.
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All of this is true and all of it is totally meaningless in the face of the Kirov 's utterly captivating presentation.
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The reasons for this enchantment are numerous, but most of them end in `` ova '', `` eva '', or `` aya ''.
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The reasons for this enchantment are numerous, but most of them end in `` ova '', `` eva '', or `` aya ''.
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In other words, no merely male creature can resist that corps de ballet.
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It seems to have been chosen exclusively from the winners of beauty contests - Miss Omsk, Miss Pinsk, Miss Stalingr - oops, skip it.
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It seems to have been chosen exclusively from the winners of beauty contests - Miss Omsk, Miss Pinsk, Miss Stalingr - oops, skip it.
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It seems to have been chosen exclusively from the winners of beauty contests - Miss Omsk, Miss Pinsk, Miss Stalingr - oops, skip it.
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These qualities alone, however, would not account for their success, and it took me a while to discover the crowning virtue that completes this company 's collective personality.
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These qualities alone, however, would not account for their success, and it took me a while to discover the crowning virtue that completes this company 's collective personality.
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These qualities alone, however, would not account for their success, and it took me a while to discover the crowning virtue that completes this company 's collective personality.
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These qualities alone, however, would not account for their success, and it took me a while to discover the crowning virtue that completes this company 's collective personality.
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It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.
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It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.
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It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.
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It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.
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that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to thestage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.
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that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to thestage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.
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that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to thestage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.
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that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to thestage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.
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This is all the more remarkable because the Kirov is to ballet what Senator Goldwater is to American politics.
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This is all the more remarkable because the Kirov is to ballet what Senator Goldwater is to American politics.
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This is all the more remarkable because the Kirov is to ballet what Senator Goldwater is to American politics.
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But, obviously, at least some things have changed for the better in Russia so far as the ballet is concerned.
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But, obviously, at least some things have changed for the better in Russia so far as the ballet is concerned.
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Irina Kolpakova, the Princess Aurora of Friday 's performance, would be a change for the better anywhere, at any time, no matter who had had the role before.
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Irina Kolpakova, the Princess Aurora of Friday 's performance, would be a change for the better anywhere, at any time, no matter who had had the role before.
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She is the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes on, and her dancing has a feminine suavity, lightness, sparkle, and refinement which are simply incomparable.
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She is the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes on, and her dancing has a feminine suavity, lightness, sparkle, and refinement which are simply incomparable.
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She is the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes on, and her dancing has a feminine suavity, lightness, sparkle, and refinement which are simply incomparable.
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She is the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes on, and her dancing has a feminine suavity, lightness, sparkle, and refinement which are simply incomparable.
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Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.
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Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.
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Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.
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Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.
was
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Vladilen Semenov, a fine `` danseur noble '' ; Konstantin Shatilov, a great character dancer ; and Inna Zubkovskaya, an excellent Lilac Fairy, were other outstanding members of the cast, but every member of the cast was magnificent.
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Vladilen Semenov, a fine `` danseur noble '' ; Konstantin Shatilov, a great character dancer ; and Inna Zubkovskaya, an excellent Lilac Fairy, were other outstanding members of the cast, but every member of the cast was magnificent.
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The production, designed by Simon Virsaladze, was completely traditional but traditional in the right way.
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The production, designed by Simon Virsaladze, was completely traditional but traditional in the right way.
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It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.
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It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.
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Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists - the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine - but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.
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Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists - the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine - but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.
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Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists - the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine - but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.
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Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists - the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine - but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.
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Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists - the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine - but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.
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Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists - the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine - but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.
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Mail orders are now being received for the series of concerts to be given this season under the auspices of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society.
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Mail orders are now being received for the series of concerts to be given this season under the auspices of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society.
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The season will open at the new Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park on November 20 at 8 : 30 p. m. with a concert by the Mills Chamber Players.
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Sustaining members may sign up at $ 25 for the ten-concert season ; annual members may attend for $ 16.
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Sustaining members may sign up at $ 25 for the ten-concert season ; annual members may attend for $ 16.
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Participating members may attend five of the concerts for $ 9 ( not all ten concerts as was erroneously announced earlier in The Chronicle ).
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Participating members may attend five of the concerts for $ 9 ( not all ten concerts as was erroneously announced earlier in The Chronicle ).
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Mail orders for the season and orders for single tickets at $ 2, may be addressed to the society, 1044 Chestnut street, San Francisco 9.
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San Francisco firemen busied themselves last week with their annual voluntary task of fixing up toys for distribution to needy children.
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San Francisco firemen busied themselves last week with their annual voluntary task of fixing up toys for distribution to needy children.
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Fire Fighters Local 798, which is sponsoring the toy program for the 12 th straight year, issued a call for San Franciscans to turn in discarded toys, which will be repaired by off-duty firemen.
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Fire Fighters Local 798, which is sponsoring the toy program for the 12 th straight year, issued a call for San Franciscans to turn in discarded toys, which will be repaired by off-duty firemen.
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Fire Fighters Local 798, which is sponsoring the toy program for the 12 th straight year, issued a call for San Franciscans to turn in discarded toys, which will be repaired by off-duty firemen.
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Fire Fighters Local 798, which is sponsoring the toy program for the 12 th straight year, issued a call for San Franciscans to turn in discarded toys, which will be repaired by off-duty firemen.
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Toys will not be collected at firehouses this year.
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They will be accepted at all branches of the Bay View Federal Savings and Loan Association, at a collection center in the center of the Stonestown mall, and at the Junior Museum, 16 th street and Roosevelt way.
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From the collection centers, toys will be taken to a warehouse at 198 Second street, where they will be repaired and made ready for distribution.
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From the collection centers, toys will be taken to a warehouse at 198 Second street, where they will be repaired and made ready for distribution.
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From the collection centers, toys will be taken to a warehouse at 198 Second street, where they will be repaired and made ready for distribution.
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Any needy family living in San Francisco can obtain toys by writing to Christmas Toys, 676 Howard street, San Francisco 5, and listing the parent 's name and address and the age and sex of each child in the family between the ages of 1 and 12.
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Any needy family living in San Francisco can obtain toys by writing to Christmas Toys, 676 Howard street, San Francisco 5, and listing the parent 's name and address and the age and sex of each child in the family between the ages of 1 and 12.
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Any needy family living in San Francisco can obtain toys by writing to Christmas Toys, 676 Howard street, San Francisco 5, and listing the parent 's name and address and the age and sex of each child in the family between the ages of 1 and 12.
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Any needy family living in San Francisco can obtain toys by writing to Christmas Toys, 676 Howard street, San Francisco 5, and listing the parent 's name and address and the age and sex of each child in the family between the ages of 1 and 12.
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Requests must be mailed in by December 5.
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Famed cellist Pablo Casals took his instrument to the East Room of the White House yesterday and charmed the staff with a two-hour rehearsal.
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