Word: borchard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slender, serious Rudolph Dunbar is no musical freshman. He studied at Manhattan's Julliard School, has several times conducted the London Philharmonic. He was in Berlin as correspondent for the Associated Negro Press of Chicago. Shortly before the Berlin Philharmonic's Conductor Leo Borchard was accidentally killed by U.S. sentries (TIME, Sept. 3), he had invited Dunbar to guest-conduct. U.S. occupation authorities were all for it, though their interest was more in teaching the Germans a lesson in racial tolerance than in Dunbar's musicianship...
Died. Leo Borchard, 53, Russian-born conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who fell from Nazi favor in 1937 when he refused to conduct the Nazi anthem, Horst Wessel, then was high in Allied favor after the fall of Berlin; shot by U.S. sentries when the British staff car in which he was riding failed to stop at their command, 35 minutes past curfew; in Berlin...
...School has 24 full-time teachers for its total of 380 students (Harvard has 31 for 1,400 students). Yale law students get individual instruction in small classes, have as teachers such topnotchers as Arthur Linton Corbin, Edwin Borchard, James Grafton Rogers (until recently they also had William Orville Douglas, now a Supreme Court Justice, and Thurman Arnold, now Assistant U. S. Attorney General). Average age of Yale's faculty is 43, of Harvard...