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...Near Bamberg in Franconia is a smallish cave with a hollow in front of it. In that hollow, in ancient times, a wicked duke cornered three virgin princesses and, when they resisted him, cut off their heads. Every October since then, says Bamberger legend, the three determined virgins gallop out of the cave by the light of the harvest moon. Headless and dressed in transparent robes, they charge around the woods on three white horses...
Other noteworthy new releases: Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Egmont and Coriolanus Overtures (Joseph Keilberth conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras; Capitol-Telefunken); Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody (Miklos Schwalb; Academy); Mozart: Requiem (Hilde Gueden, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, Salzburg Dome Choir; Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Josef Messner; Remington); Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury) ; Schubert: A Song Recital (Herman Schey, bass-baritone; Poly music); Tchaikovsky: "Pathétique" Symphony (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy...
This was not enough for some of the hotter heads, who still wanted to give the Democratic spot on the ballot to the Republican nominees. Said James A. Mayfield of Bamberg County: "Senator Sparkman is just the sugar-coated candy to get rid of the rhubarb and calomel taste of Truman and the C.I.O. gang." But Jimmy Byrnes's plan, as is customary in South Carolina, was adopted...
...investigating committee sent from Bamberg by Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb had some harsh things to say about the "vision children," whose stories were muddled and contradictory. The latest vision child, 17-year-old Hildegard Lang, had even scheduled her daily visions promptly at 3, 5 and 7. In May 1950, the archbishop declared that the visions were not supernatural and forbade Catholics to participate in the hillside rites...
...burghers of Heroldsbach were not easily convinced. When a priest from Bamberg read a papal condemnation of the visions from Heroldsbach's pulpit, he was shouted down by the villagers. The church proceeded slowly against the visionists. But when they kept organizing processions, the archbishop excommunicated 22 of the leaders...