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Viliam Siroky, son of a Slovak railway worker, secretly returned from exile in Moscow to organize the Czech Resistance in 1944. He is now Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia...
After New York, Rodzinski had gone to Chicago. He had lasted one year. Last week, after eleven guest conductors in two seasons, the Chicago Symphony Association voted its baton to a relative newcomer to the U.S.: mop-haired Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik, 35, who made a hit as a guest conductor last fall (TIME...
Schumann: Fantasia in C (Rudolf Firkusny, pianist; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). One of Schumann's greater works, played with poetry and power by a 37-year-old Czech pianist who is one of the best of his generation. Recording: good...
...Vansittart, 68, in Britain's House of Lords last week. Bristling with rage, the onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office told his peers how the Soviet news agency Tass ("a nest of guttersnipes") had wriggled out of a libel suit filed by Vladimir Krajina, Czech refugee and onetime resistance fighter. The Soviet Embassy had declared Tass a state organ (TIME, July 11), and a British court had no choice but to grant diplomatic immunity to Tass, which had accused Krajina of being a traitor. Krajina's last resort was to appeal to the House...
Last year, after conducting at Scotland's Edinburgh festival, Rafael Kubelik sent word to Prague (where members of his family still live) that he was not returning to open the 1948-49 season; he would play Czech music, but play it elsewhere. Since then, he and his wife and three-year-old son Martin have made their headquarters in London...