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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter Monica's love-Claverton tells her the truth about himself and finds that "if a man has one person to whom he is willing to confess everything, then he loves that person, and his love will save him." As a serene Claverton goes off to die under a beech tree-faintly echoing Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus-he wears his fate like a royal robe: "I feel at peace now. It is the peace that ensues upon contrition when contrition ensues upon knowledge of the truth...
...Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper-The Threepenny Opera (Lotte Lenya, with supporting cast and orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg; Colum-bia, 2 LPs). Composer Weill's widow Lotte Lenya (TIME, Aug. n) went to Berlin last winter to handpick and train singers, direct a 30th anniversary recording of the complete score (including some lusty, gutsy sections never before performed) for the first time in Bertolt Brecht's inimitable original German. The result is by far the best recorded recreation of Kurt Weill's jazzy, bitterly ironic score, with Singer Lenya herself heading a first-rate cast. Every sardonic...
...Alabama's Atmore prison farm, Jimmie Wilson, 55, a Negro handyman, awaited the bell's toll: he is under sentence to die in the electric chair next week. His crime: a $1.95 robbery...
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...ties with Britain (there are economic advantages in staying in the Commonwealth), but the Union Jack is no longer flown, and God Save the Queen is no longer South Africa's anthem. In his honor South Africa's state radio played solemn music and the official anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa...