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...Record: "it is well known that the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari while Soviet armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade" (Literary Gazette...
Both Würzburg and, this year, Hannover have moved in on Mozart programs, which used to be virtually cornered by Salzburg, while Italy's Bari, hitherto barely in the festival swim, is patting itself on the back for having landed a prize catch this year: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon...
...American in Europe in the year 1954 needs but a few weeks or even days to know the sense of Europe's opinion on the subject. A full year here produces evidence that is sickeningly sufficient. From Moscow to London, from Bremen to Bari, the disgust of Europe is as plain and great as the cost to America, although perhaps not matching the comfort to the Soviet Union...
Attacking the British. All Italy was enraged. Violence sputtered in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Bari, Messina. In Rome, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, returning from a call on Premier Pella, found Via Veneto, the broad street in front of the embassy, blocked by demonstrators, so that her car could not get through. Unhesitatingly, she stepped out of the car into the midst of the demonstrators and walked coolly through the crowd to the embassy. Then she offered to talk to any qualified representative of the demonstrators, but the crowd dispersed without anyone taking up the offer...
...Curiously, she could not (and still cannot) carry a tune. This failure almost cost her the chance to study at the Pesaro conservatory, but her fiddling got her by, and in two years she had carried away all available prizes. At 17 she won a violin professorship at the Bari conservatory...