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February 18, 1956

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a reporter at large

A Spray Gun for the Varnish,

Joseph Wechsberg

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Mittenwald, in Bavaria, a famous old violin-making town whose business is now nearly dead. Gives history of the town. …