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Died. Baron Georg von Trapp, 67, World War I chief of Austria's tiny submarine fleet, manager and nonsinging head of the Trapp Family Singers; of cancer, in Stowe, Vt. The choir (buxom Baroness von Trapp, seven daughters and two sons), ran away from the Nazis in 1938, became a top U.S. concert attraction...
After an anthem by the Choir, President Conant awarded token degrees to the several Marshals representing graduating groups. He then awarded honorary degrees to 12 leaders in the fields of arts, science, literature, and public affairs, following which the ceremony was closed with a singing of the Commencement hymn and a final benediction by Dean Sperry...
...finally succeeded in crashing Constantinople's triple walls (in 1453), the townspeople hopefully streamed for their proudest monument, the Church of Saint Sophia, assured by a prophet that the Moslems would never conquer it. "In the space of an hour," wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins. . . . Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an enthusiast or an impostor . . . that an angel would descend from heaven with a sword...
...three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang with all vocal beauty the extended and difficult solo passages of the Copland work. Mary Crowley accompanied the Malipiero piece on the organ, and a brass choir from the Boston Symphony Orchestra helped out in the Hindemith...
Featuring the Band and the well-known amateur choir from the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the free concert is the first of a series of three benefit appearances planned by the local music-makers for the coming two weeks...