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Happily, reports Landon, the society has cleared up at least one bothersome question in its hero's favor: it was really Haydn-and not, "as certain German circles tried to prove," Anton Kraft-who wrote Haydn's fifth Cello Concerto...
...Philippines, other scientific fishermen were combing even deeper waters. Dr. Anton F. Bruun of the Danish research ship Galathea reported that there seems to be no limit to the depths that life can sink. His men dredged the bottom of the Mindanao trench, the deepest part (35,400 ft.) of the ocean, never explored before. They hauled up 17 sea anemones, 61 sea cucumbers, two mollusks and one crustacean. All were comparatively fragile creatures, but they did not seem to mind living in darkness and cold more than six miles down, where the water pressure is more than seven tons...
...opposition. The fascist-like Syrian National Party wanted Lebanon reunited with Syria to become part of an Arab superstate, Greater Syria. El Solh stood for Lebanon's complete independence. Two years ago the Syrian National Party broke out in open revolt. The revolt was suppressed and Party Leader Anton Saadeh, who fled to Syria, was extradited, tried and shot. His followers swore they would get revenge on el Sohl...
...most fearless and most feared music critic of his day (1825-1904), and one of the most justly renowned of all time. Writing for the last 30 years of his career in Die Neue Freie Presse, he had contemporary subjects worthy of his talents: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. A trained musician and respectable pianist himself, Critic Hanslick was sometimes caustic, but he was always careful. His claim was that "I never criticized a composition that I had not read or played through, both before and after the performance...
Disenchanted. In St. Louis, Magistrate Anton Sestric awarded $500 damages to four-year-old Gary Lee Roberts, another $500 to his parents, for the illusion that was shattered last year when a department-store Santa Claus picked up young Gary Lee, carelessly dropped...