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...been on stronger ground in citing the absence of contemporary music. Community's 1,000 audiences did not see Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Schoenberg or Britten on any pianist's program. They heard the music of only three contemporary U.S. composers, Morton Gould, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson himself. Fourteen touring symphony orchestras served soothing programs made up mostly of Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Stravinsky cracked a few programs with his Firebird suite...
Prior to the general's manifesto, the State Department was making plans for a statement of the peace aims of all fourteen nations now fighting with the U.N. in Korea. The plan was to send this statement to the Chinese in order to re-open truce negotiations. The U.N. is also trying to establish contact with Peiping through the Swedish legation there. MacArthur's proposal made no mention of these authorized negotiations and was obviously not coordinated with them; the general's speech came as a complete surprise to U.N. officials of all nations...
...Fourteen Hours. Manhattan stands a tense, day-long watch while a would-be suicide perches on a hotel window ledge; with Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas (TIME, March...
...Fourteen Hours. Manhattan stands a tense, day-long watch while a would-be suicide perches on a hotel window ledge; with Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas (TIME, March...
...Fourteen Hours (20th Century-Fox). A suicidal young man named John Warde stood the U.S. on its ear 13 years ago when he perched all day on the 17th-floor ledge of Manhattan's Gotham Hotel before going over the edge. Inspired by Joel Sayre's New Yorker account, "The Man on the Ledge," skillful moviemakers have turned one of 1938's most exciting news events into a tense, semi-documentary drama that bids firmly for 1951 film honors...