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...Longest Day. General Zanuck's war games are played off like cops and robbers. With 42 stars and a musical score by Ludwig van Beethoven and Paul Anka to inspire them, Zanuck's troops have a splendid time on D-day outfoxing those funny old Germans. Day is three hours long, and while it is never boring, it is basically an episodic documentary that sometimes has the bad taste to say: war is swell...
...Longest Day. General Zanuck's war games are played off like cops and robbers. With 42 stars and a musical score by Ludwig van Beethoven and Paul Anka to inspire them, Zanuck's troops have a splendid time on D-day outfoxing those funny old Germans, dodging bullets (even the casualties are bloodless), and scaring old ladies. Day is three hours long, and while it is never boring, it is basically an episodic documentary that sometimes has the bad taste to say: war is swell...
...Votapek, 23, to be greeted by Mayor Henry Maier. "For too long," intoned the mayor, "Milwaukee has been symbolized to the rest of the nation only by beer and the Braves. Now, thanks to Ralph Votapek, we have added a third and very important B to our national honors-Beethoven." He proclaimed Ralph Votapek Day and announced that Votapek's name would appear in neon lights on the city-hall tower...
...Votapek, a pupil of Cliburn's teacher Rosina Lhevinne, had to beat out 45 contestants from 16 nations, including two fine Soviet pianists who finished second and third. A softspoken, shy young man, he played the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto and the first movement of the Beethoven Fourth, singing his way into their reflective passages and kindling fire from their climaxes with an ease and fluidity that immediately impressed the judges...
Quincy House students reacted strongly last night to the introduction of piped-in music at dinner. The trial program of music, approved by the House committee, consisted of an album entitled "50 Great Moments in Music," and included excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Symphony #6, Sibelius' Finlandia, Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, Offenbach's Parisienne, and Chubby Checker's Let's Twist Again...