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...Geneva the 100th session of the Council of the League of Nations which had been about to open was suddenly postponed. In London Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hastily conferred with Anthony Eden, called home from Monte Carlo to duty : . the Foreign Office. For European statesmen felt that it was not just another French Cabinet which fell last week, that a crisis was at hand not only for France but for Europe...
Birthday. Henry Richard Gibson, probably the oldest living former (1895-1905) Congressman; his 100th or 101st; in Washington. Biographies say he was born in 1837; his family Bible gives 1836. Said he: "What's one year among a hundred? Certainly nothing to worry about...
Schumann's score had actually never been lost at all. The romantic, mentally ailing composer had left the concerto to Violinist Joseph Joachim, whose will consigned it to remain unheard until the 100th anniversary of Schumann's death (TIME, Aug. 23). (Joachim considered the concerto not up to snuff.) Since 1907 the concerto had rested securely in the archives of Berlin's Prussian State Library, where its existence had been well known to scholars and had been noted in dozens of bibliographies and musical dictionaries. Last April, German Music Publisher Wilhelm Strecker sent photostats of the original...
Work will begin immediately on Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", which is scheduled definitely for performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the spring. Not since 1927 has the Glee Club presented this composition, (this was on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Beethoven's death), nor had it been presented for many years prior to that...
...state from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. alongside the desk where he had worked for half a century. Instructions were carried out to the letter: 350 mourners were handed his obituary, fresh off the clanking press. The new Linotype machine, purchased to celebrate the Mercury's 100th anniversary three months hence, was Editor Bodine's great joy. He had started to use it to write his memoirs...