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...Life and Letters (Vols. 7, 8); Poet Mark Van Doren, for Collected Poems; Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, for his dispatches to the New York Times from Berlin.* Other journalism citations: Baltimore Sun Cartoonist Edmund Duffy, New York World Telegram Reporter S. Burton Heath, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial-writer Bart Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Pitching for the first six innings was Bob Lusskin, being relieved in the last three by Dick Hardling. Bob Axtell was behind the placed for eight innings, while Jay McConville played the last one. Bart Harvey was by far the most consistent infielder, accepting many difficult plays at second base with only one error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BATSMEN LOSE | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...Bartók, a precise, percussive pianist, was to play pieces with titles like From the Diary of a Fly, Syncopation, From the Island of Bali, from his Mikrokosmos, which was published last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer Bart | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Bartók Béla (as Hungarians call him) as a mouse-poor student roamed his native land, bending a sensitive ear to its folk songs. Among the peasants Bartók met, by purest chance, another composer with the same idea: Zoltán Kodály. The two got together, noted down several thousand melodies. Kodály drew lustier inspiration from the Hungarian soil than Bartók: his suite from the opera Háry János, depicting the exploits of a mythical Magyar hero, became a concert favorite. Bart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer Bart | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

When Hungary went briefly Communist, in 1919, its dissonant Government put Bartók, Kodály and its third well-known composer, academic Ernst von Dohnányi, on musical pedestals. Enormously shy, Bartók lives in Budapest in extreme quiet with his wife and son. He has an almost inaudible voice, dislikes conversation, has one shy-rude trait. When addressed (in European manner) as maestro or maitre, he replies curtly: "My name is Mr. Bartók." Vigorously anti-Nazi, he will not allow his music, if he can help it, to be broadcast within earshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer Bart | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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