As the birthday boy appeared on the crowded veranda of his house in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 38-man choir burst into Ralph Vaughan Williams' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Famous Man Pablo Casals, cellist, composer, humanitarian, was celebrating his 95th birthday, surrounded by hordes of friends and mountains of letters, cables and presents from all over the world. The festivities have been going on for several weeks, and are scheduled to last for at least another fortnight; Nonagenarian Casals, with his 35-year-old wife Martita, has been enjoying every minute of them. He was depressed, however, by atrocity photographs from...
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