Word: antonine
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Died. Henry Thacker Burleigh, 82, Negro baritone who composed (or arranged) more than 50 spirituals (Deep River; Go Down, Moses) and some 200 songs, acquainted Antonin Dvorak with Negro folk music that became thematic material for his symphony From the New World; in Stamford, Conn...
...drive to break the Roman Catholic Church, the Czech Communist government last week recruited 118 pliable Catholics, including two monsignors and a sprinkling of priests, to form an "anticapitalist" Catholic Action Organization. At the same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
Czechoslovakia's Premier Antonin Zapotocky showed up for the winter sports at a resort in eastern Bohemia...
...Usti-nad-labem, Czechoslovakia, tactful city fathers changed the name of General Eisenhower Embankment to Premier Antonin Zapotocky Embankment, and the name of Marshal Tito Street to Jan Sverma Street (after a late national Communist hero...