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...them brought him further recognition. Dimitri Mitropoulos, a conductor always on the lookout for new works for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, studied the score of Swanson's Short Symphony (his second), gave it a first performance in Carnegie Hall, and later included it in his Edinburgh Festival program. It was rich in melody and vigorous in rhythm, pleasing if not musically adventurous...
...Manager Rudolf Bing first spotted Hilde Gueden in 1947, when she was singing in Paris with the touring Vienna State Opera. The next season he got her up to his Edinburgh Festival to sing Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Since then she has been busy in Vienna, Salzburg and Milan, but Bing got her to the Met as fast as he could...
...fashioned peer who believed that the aristocracy has responsibilities as well as privileges, Lord Linlithgow distinguished himself as a soldier (commander of a Royal Scots battalion in World War I), politician (deputy chairman of Scotland's Conservative Party), businessman (chairman of Midland Bank) and educator (Chancellor of Edinburgh University). As Viceroy of India, he faced with frosty courage his double troubles of constitutional changes and organizing the country for war: he jailed Gandhi and Nehru, suspended the constitution he had helped bring to India, organized an army of 2,000,000, administered what Churchill called "a glorious final page...
...Newcastle, to dedicate a new engineering section at Kings College, the Duke of Edinburgh unfurled for the first time his own personal standard, recently approved by his father-in-law. Three feet long and two feet wide (impaled with his own arms and those of Elizabeth), the pennant includes a total of ten lions: six English, three Danish and one Scottish...
...meeting of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with the Washington press corps provided TIME Correspondent Martha Bucknell with two unexpected fillips. The Princess stopped several times to chat with the newsmen and women. The last one she spoke to was Mrs. Bucknell...