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Back to a Love. World War II forced Landowska. who was of Jewish origin, to flee France. She came to the U.S. and settled in Lakeville, Conn., with Elsa Schumicke and Denise Restout, who had been her constant companions for more than 25 years. There she concentrated on recording her interpretation of the old masters. Her recording of the 48 labyrinthine preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is a modern classic. Landowska called it "my last will and testament." It was far from her last. At 76, but with the spirit of a sprite, the high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Promise Kept | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...medicine to laymen's terms (Mind and Body, a 1947 bestseller), urged parents baffled by conflicting psychiatric advice to find a middle way between too much old-fashioned discipline for their children and too much modern freedom; by drowning; in the pool of her home in South Kent, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...commercial mediocrity in the 1920s by tenaciously putting on demanding works by such authors as G. B. Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood and William Inge, was the first to pair Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage (The Guardsman, 1924); of a heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories of the '205 but achieved some later notable successes. It was Theresa Helburn who sent the script of Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs to Composer Richard Rodgers and suggested it might make a' good musical. Result: Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Windfall. In Hartford, Conn., after stirring up a row when he announced that police would use unmarked cars to catch speeders, State Police Commissioner Leo J. Mulcahy felt vindicated when someone slashed the tires of eleven well-marked patrol cars outside the police barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Died. John Gamble Kirkwood, 52, Chemistry Department chairman at Yale University, who developed a new method of separating blood proteins, at 28 won the American Chemical Society's Langmuir award in pure chemistry; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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