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Like many another composer, Hungary's Bela Bartók lived and died a poor man. His sour and peppery music was bitterly condemned by many critics; audiences seemed to like it even less. Mostly it got played, if at all, before esoteric little groups of modernist composers and musicians, who had built up a tolerance to what the uninitiated regarded as barnyard music...
When he died of leukemia in Manhattan last September at 64, Bela Bartók's final hospital bills and burial expenses were paid by the big-money boys of composing, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Irving Berlin, Deems Taylor, etc.). He had never belonged...
Died. Béla BartÓk, 64, prolific Hungarian composer of piquant, sometimes cacophonous orchestral and chamber music; longtime student of Magyar and Yugoslav folk music; after long illness; in Manhattan, his home since 1940. A radical modernist, BartÓk in 1938 wrote Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin especially for his friend Joseph Szigeti's violin and Benny Goodman's rippling clarinet...
Battle Results. Radar's fantastic capabilities have been dramatized again & again in battle. It was radar that enabled a .U.S. warship to smash the battleship Jean Bart at Oran with one salvo from 26 miles away. German radar-directed fire sank the British battle cruiser Hood, and British radar in turn tracked down the Bismarck. It was a radar operator who gave the tragically ignored warning of approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor...
Astronomers whose countries are at war with each other have kept in touch through neutrals-and through Professor Shapley, who has collected and distributed astronomical news in a mimeographed Monthly Astronomical Newsletter, edited by crack Harvard Astronomer Bart J. Bok. Shapley also has a well-organized worldwide system for telegraph reporting of spot news; Germans cable their discoveries to Harvard via Denmark and Sweden...