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...Andrassy Ut. Five months ago the Communists discovered a "dangerous plot" involving "highly placed persons." They arrested Bela Kovacs, personal friend of Nagy and secretary-general of his party, and 20 inner-circle members of the Government. Communist Police Chief Peter Gabor, at No. 60 Andrassy Ut (the Ministry of the Interior's political prison), was long a member of the Soviet secret police in Moscow; he knew how to get "confessions." What went on in "No. 60" was revealed in a smuggled letter from one prisoner. "The interrogation was a nightmare," he wrote. "I was allowed...
...Gyorgy Sandor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). First recording of one of the major works of a composer whom the U.S. is only beginning to appreciate (TIME, March 18, 1946). Dying in Manhattan in 1945, Hungarian Bela Bartok put aside other projects to write this concerto, hoping it would help support his widow. He had finished all but the last 17 measures (and had outlined them) when he died. The concerto, melodic and original, is free of the harmonic obtuseness which put listeners off many of his earlier works. Performance: excellent...
Soon after midnight, guards at old Acre Prison, near Haifa, entered his cell and shook Dov Bela Gruner until he woke up. Sleepy-eyed, bewildered, he was taken to a large, dimly lit room. There stood a gallows. There also stood three other men of Palestine's Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organization. This was their first notice that death had come for them...
Tonight's selections include works by Aaron Copland, Leroy Robertson, Richard Franko Goldman, Roy Harris, Roger Sessions, Bela Bartok, and Zolton Kodaly. Also featured will be "improvisation," by Walter Piston '24, professor of Music, and Two Etudes by Virgil Thomson...
...Bela Gruner's lawyer last week told him that his ?120 bonus check for five and a half years' service with the British Army had arrived. Gruner sent for paper, made a will leaving his bonus to the Irgun Z-vai Leumi, the Jewish terrorist organization that considers itself at war with Britain. Then Gruner, in the blood-red uniform of a prisoner condemned to death, sat in his Jerusalem cell and waited for the British to make up their minds whether to hang...