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Four years ago Baker Bedrich Cech's daughter had slipped out of the country alone to marry an American G.I. Because of her flight, Bedrich's bakery was confiscated. The old man went to work for his son Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling...
...Artur London, deputy foreign minister. ¶Bedrich Reicin, deputy defense minister. ¶Josef Pavel, deputy security (i.e., police) minister...
...small, inscrutable inner circle of Communists, who get their orders from the offices of the Cominform in Bucharest or directly from Moscow. Most notable member of this inner circle is Rudolf Slansky, secretary general of the party. Other members, according to the Times's Schmidt, are Bedrich Gemmder, contactman for the Cominform Defense Minister Dr. Alexej Cepicka, and National Security Minister Ladislav Kopriva. But Schmidt suspects it does not include President Klement Gottwald, chairman of the Communist Party, or Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky. (While both men seem to hold undisputed authority, it has been rumored that Moscow does...
...evening last week, a towering, bushy-haired young man strode across the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall, took his place on the conductor's stand. The applause was cordially perfunctory. But by the time he had led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the bouncing overture to Bedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mozart's Symphony No. 38 (Prague) and Leos Janacek's bone-rattling Taras Bulba, Chicagoans were clapping hard. Thirty-five-year-old Conductor Rafael Kubelik, son of the late great Czech Violinist Jan Kubelik, they decided, was a credit to his father...
Martinu's music got a fine critical reception. Though he inherits the great Czech tradition of Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak, Martinu does not work in their sunlit, melodically fecund vein. The emotional tone of his music is measured, but it has genuine dignity, drama and decided individuality. Softspoken, shy, 52-year-old Martinu grew up in the little Czech town of Policka, where his father was a shoemaker, played the violin for a decade with the famed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. In 1923 he went to Paris, stayed for nearly 20 years. A very serious...