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...Died. Eduard Alexander van Beinum, 58, one of the world's outstanding orchestra conductors, who shaped the post-World War II reconstruction of Amsterdam's famed 71-year-old Concertgebouw, transpolar commuter who since 1957 had directed both the Concertgebouw and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of a heart attack; while rehearsing on the podium in Amsterdam...
This is the world of French Cartoonist Jean Effel (concocted from the initials of his real name, François Lejeune), whose whimsies about the first two chapters of Genesis have made bestselling booklet after booklet in France. He also collaborated with Czech Movie Director Eduard Hofman to make a 90-minute feature film out of the series. The result, called The Creation of the World, took top prize for animated cartoons at this year's Venice Festival, and won the Silver Gondola for excellence awarded for educational and cultural films...
Last week, ten years after Eduard Benes unhappily yielded Czechoslovakia to Communist control, the late President's nephew, Bohus Benes, became a U.S. citizen. Czech consul general in San Francisco from 1942 to 1948, Bohus Benes is now a part-time lecturer in political science. Coldly straightforward about the significance of his oath to the U.S., he said: "This means that I've given up hope that my country will ever be liberated...
Following the intermission came the most moving piece of the evening--Des Todes Tod, Opus 23a--in what was one of its first American performances. The piece is based on three poems by Eduard Reinacher and is scored for woman's voice, two violas and two 'celli. The soprano was Jean Lunn, who also organized the whole program. Her performance was outstanding, her interpretation dramatic, and her voice very clear. She was well supported by Miss Johnson and Judith Davidoff, 'cellists, and Mr. Eleftherakis and Joseph Pietropaolo, violists...
...Design. Its members are Mirko Basaldella, Director of the design Workship; John B. Coolidge, Director of Fogg Museum; Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe; Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education; Norman T. Newton, Secretary of the Faculty of Design; I. A. Richards, University Professor, and Eduard F. Sekler, associate professor of Architecture...