Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tujunga, Calif...
...years the well-to-do resort town of Carmel, Calif, has become a kind of Bayreuth of Bach. Last week Carmel again paid its tribute to the master with a full week of his music. A good many Carmelites frankly preferred the Shriners' circus in nearby Salinas. But those who gave Bach a try got preludes and fugues on the organ, cantatas, all the Brandenburg concertos and a few works by other 18th Century composers. The big event was two performances of the great B Minor Mass. It rated a B minus for Bach -the strings were uneven...
...Rocking-Chair Set. In Long Beach, Calif., cops were looking for two elderly women who had purred down a sidewalk in their electric motor chair, had run over and fatally injured a 73-year-old lady...
...deed of darkness." Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very much after he's 40," but at 53 he was off to the marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel. At Santa Monica, Calif., KATHERINE ANNE PORTER had finished two-thirds of No Safe Harbor, a parable on fascism based on a diary she kept of a boat trip in 1931 from Veracruz to Bremerhaven...
Died. Walter Donaldson, 54, Brooklyn-born composer whose Mammy and My Blue Heaven made him one of the brightest of Tin Pan Alley's neon lights; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...