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Mozart: Sonata in A Minor, K. 310 (Dinu Lipatti, piano; Columbia). Pianist Lipatti died two years ago at 33, but not before he made a series of recordings. His Mozart is water-clear; the briefest melodic line takes on significance, and sounds as easy as breathing...
...project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules of nonpartisanship, the Exponent is Democratic, the Telegram Republican, and during campaigns each prints only the briefest news about the party it opposes. On the day that Harry Truman whistle-stopped at Clarksburg, the Exponent carried not a word about it. (The Sunday combined Exponent-Telegram is completely "nonpartisan," i.e., rarely reports political news...
Gertie (by Enid Bagnold), a frail, younger English sister to Jane, paid Broadway the briefest of visits. A generally listless comedy, it concerned a family that would soon run out of money, and the plight of its two daughters in an England that seemed already to have run out of men. Its one real claim to attention was the Broadway debut, in the title role, of British Cinemactress Glynis (State Secret) Johns, who gave a highly engaging performance...
...long is 12,000 years? It took H. G. Wells more than 1,100 pages to cover the ground in briefest detail in his Outline. It is taking Arnold Toynbee at least six volumes in his Study. But this week, U.S. readers could get the 12,000 years of man's history in a capsule-a full History of the World (Harcourt, Brace; $3) all in 300 pages...
...unfinished autobiography and the unfinished book will not do much to change Leo's status. The autobiography shows him to be an arrogant dilettante claiming an exhaustive knowledge of subjects with which he had had the briefest brushes. At 22, he dismissed history as inaccurate rubbish. At 28, he put all the philosophy worth knowing onto two sheets of note paper...