Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Also in Titoland for the combined U.S. and British press was Renter's John Talbot. In addition, the Army's Yank published its first dispatches from Sergeant Correspondent Walter Bernstein, who had been in Yugoslavia for several weeks, shared his colleagues' enthusiasm for the Partisans...
...ballet together with Janet Reed. Born Jerome Rabinowitz, Robbins grew up in Weehawken, N.J., was in & out of little dance groups for six years without getting anywhere. He started plotting Fancy Free last June, got the New York Philharmonic's 25-year-old assistant conductor Leonard Bernstein to do the music. Now Hollywood and Broadway will not let Robbins alone. Says he, the son of a corset manufacturer: "Who am I? Just a guy from Weehawken, and all of a sudden-boom...
...Copyright 1943 by Peter Maurice, Inc. by permission of Shapiro, Bernstein...
Some participants on the schedule: Belgian appeals court President Henri Rolin (whom Hitler blitzed out); Italian Art Critic Lionello Venturi (whom Mussolini hounded out); Spanish Scholar Alfredo Mendizabal (whom Franco locked out); France's Surrealist Andre Masson, Mathematician Jacques Hadamard, Playwright Henri Bernstein, Novelist Julian Green; America's Philosopher James Bissett Pratt (Williams), Poet-Journalist James Rorty, Scholar Henri Maurice Peyre (Yale), Poet Critic John Peale Bishop...
...Leonard Bernstein '39 conducted the modern half of the program, including the Stravinsky concerto "Dumbarton Oaks," whose changes of time, every few measures, from 5/4 to 7/8 to 11/16, make it a very difficult piect to conduct. Mr. Bernstein, however, handled these rhythmical difficulties with perfect precision and firmness...