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Lyons was brought before Judge John C. Knox at the request of Emanuel Bloch, attorney for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atom spies sentenced to death (TIME, April 16). The Government, said Bloch, was conspiring to break down Mrs. Rosenberg and get a "false" confession from her -and Columnist Lyons was part of the conspiracy. The reason Bloch thought so was that since February (shortly before their trial) no less than 20 "leaks" on the case had appeared in "The Lyons Den," syndicated in 102 papers. Sample item: "If [the convicted Rosenbergs] talk, they still can save themselves . . ." Attorney Bloch wanted...
Mason Hammond will be on leave next year; William C. Greene and Arthur Darby Nock will be away in the spring; Herbert Bloch will be back after a year's absence...
Carrying his $30,000 Stradivarius cello like a toy, the hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.) master lunged onstage, plunked himself into a chair next to the piano. Then he launched into a program of Schumann, Bach, Milhaud, Debussy, Bloch and Ravel. He played them all with masterful technique and taste, though he was at his best when the music called for soaring rhapsody. All in all, he played with the freshness of a man who had taken time out to think things over...
After graduating in 1920 Thompson wanted to take lessons from Ernest Bloch, but the great composer did not give him a very warm reception. "Have you analyzed the quartets of Beethoven? Have you studied the Masses of Palestrina? Have you analyzed the motets of Lassua?" The answer to each of these questions was no. "And you are a graduate of Harvard!" said the horrified Bloch. Bloch agreed to teach him, however...
Pease is retiring and Hammond is replacing him. Post, the only man ever to make summa cum laude in three subjects, is also retiring. Bloch, the medieval Latin specialist, will be on leave for the fall term, and Dow will be on leave for the spring term...