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...Lewisohn Stadium, Conductor Josef Krips gave agile proof that he is descended from a long line of conductors of the Viennese school, a special breed that has all but disappeared from the world's concert halls, a line that once rang with such great names as Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner (Krips's teacher), Franz Schalk and Bruno Walter. What those artists had in common, says the Buffalo Symphony's Krips, was a sense of continuity, a conviction that music should be "one long legato line." Krips's own legato line as he conducts Beethoven and Brahms...
...Balcony. There were also less-global affairs: a visit from Benny Goodman, reporting on his Russian jazz tour; a trip to the bedside of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 79, who is recovering from a stroke; a White House meeting with a North Carolina admirer, aged 8, who is suffering from a heart deformity; and an enjoyable interlude with 24 blind teen-agers from California, who peppered him with questions. "Are you going to run for office again?" "I'm thinking about it.'' "Do you think your children will follow in your footsteps?" "I hope...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 92%. Benevolent and anti-Communist Dictator Felix Houphouet-Boigny leads moderate Brazzaville bloc of twelve former French territories. Though unified by Houphouet, villagers have little interest in self-government...
...were the best American Presidents? Emeritus Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., 74, asks the question in the New York Times Magazine and answers it with a poll of 75 men described as "students of American history." Among them: James B. Conant, Denis Brogan, Henry Steele Commager, Felix Frankfurter, and Schlesinger's own historian son, Arthur Jr., who now tinkers around the White House for a President who was not included in the rating. On a scale ranging from Great to Failure, five were called Great. F.D.R. finished third, after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, but ahead of Woodrow...
...Schubert (and here Mr. Boykan was flawless) neared perfection. The blend of clarinet (Felix Viscuglia) and voice (Bethany Beardslee) was a marvel; one wonders, after hearing this piece, why more has not been written for this combination...