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...next week, though one political expert said: "Sick or not, he is out." Another is that he was actually sacked from his job as party boss late last month, despite East German efforts to make his replacement look like a smooth, amicable turnover. The West German monthly Deutschland Archiv, which specializes in East German affairs, maintains that Ulbricht had been under attack for his economic policies and, more important, had displeased Moscow by obstructing East-West diplomatic initiatives. The last and least plausible theory is that, unhappy with the minor role he had been given at the congress, Ulbricht stayed...
BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, PART 1 (2 LPs; Archiv). "Clavier" means keyboard, and no one knows whether these preludes and fugues were written for harpsichord, organ or clavichord. Ralph Kirkpatrick is recording them on the clavichord, preferring its subtlety. Infinitely varied within their small compass, like snowflakes, the pieces have a severe fascination when played on the soft, monochromatic instrument. The late Wanda Landowska chose the harpsichord as her clavier, and her performances (RCA Victor) will be preferred by listeners who demand greater contrast and majesty...
...Nazi censors told of a wholesale uproar among the civilian population of Rostock. German editorial writers recognized the damage that had been done, to morale and to production. Prize piece of pabulum for the gullets of the master people was the editorial in Dr. Alfred Rosenberg's Archiv für Rassen und Gesellschafts-biologie...
...about "All Quiet on the Western Front," Mr. Lewis pitches into the real interest of the modern critic, the author's life and personality. Investigation has shown him that in 1919 Remarque wore a uniform of a Lieutenant of the 91st Infantry Regiment, whereas the President of the Reichs-archiv has officially denied that his name appears on record. And ten years later he was calling himself Frieherr von Buchwald, known as Remark, and had a coronet on his visiting card. He then compares Remarque's account of the World War to Uncle Toby on the siege of Namur...
...graduate of Cornell. In 1894 she received the additional degree of LL.B. from Northwestern University. For several years she was state inspector of factories in Illinois. Her work in this capacity attracted the attention of Socialist leaders throughout the world. She then became American editor of the Archiv fur Sozialegetzgebung, a German Socialist publication in Berlin. For over ten years Mrs. Kelley has been general secretary of the National Consumers' League, which has done so much towards the establishment of the open market in this country...