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Gliere: Symphony No. 3 (St. Cecilia Academy Symphony Orchestra of Rome, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Capi-tol-Telefunken, 2 sides LP). Although his Red Poppy ballet music is better known, this is probably the best work of 75-year-old Reinhold Gliere, dean of Russian composers (see above). Finished in 1911, it is based on the legend of the Paul Bunyan-like Russian folk hero, Ilya Murometz. Huge in concept, it sometimes sounds like such non-Russians as Sibelius or Bruckner. Performance and recording: good...
...spite of the high-sounding advance testimonials that Worlds in Collision has picked up, few experts cared to waste much time on the Velikovsky theory. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin of the Harvard College Observatory pointed out that there are records of detailed observations of Venus from at least 500 years before the Exodus. Said Dr. David Delo, executive director of the American Geological Institute: "Velikovsky appears to be bypassing all the sound, scientific observations of a multitude of geologists...
Married. Princess Cecilia of Germany, 31, daughter of German ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Clyde Harris, 31, Texas interior decorator, onetime Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer (with the U.S.M.G. in Darmstadt); in a 1,000-year-old castle near Hechingen, Germany. Blonde Princess Cecilia, once (1936) rumored to be a possible bride for Britain's Edward VIII, will live with her husband in an Amarillo, Tex. apartment...
Moderator Kirtley F. Mather rephrased the scheduled question to: "Does research in the physical sciences encourage honesty, discerning love, and cooperation with fellow workers," but Phillip G. Frank, Phillippe E. Le Corbeiller, and Cecilia P. Gaposchkin stuck to the original query...
Arising with Drums. In the early 1900s, on every Easter morning, an orchestra hired for the occasion would roll into a kettledrum crescendo which just about lifted the roof off the Middletown (Conn.) Holy Trinity Church. It was Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass. The choir chanted: "I believe in one God . . ." Anda skinny little substitute crucifer, home from boarding school, would tell himself tremblingly: "Boy, I sure...