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...Here," beamed moonfaced Conductor Fritz Busch, "is everything so perfect . . . If we miss a note now & then, is that so important? What counts is the enthusiasm." At Cincinnati's 38th biennial May Music Festival, famed Metropolitan Opera Conductor Fritz Busch was getting just about all the enthusiasm he could handle, and he enjoyed every decibel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Everything So Perfect | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...Schoeffler really had had his way, he would have been a conductor, the role he was studying 20 years ago in Dresden when his teacher told him he had a career-making voice. He got his first break in opera that same year in Dresden from Conductor Fritz Busch; he was still singing with the company on the dark day in March 1933 when Hitler's hoodlums broke up Busch's performance of Rigoletto. Soon after Busch left the country, Schoeffler went to Vienna, where he sang throughout the war. Since the war, engagements at opera houses from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Don from Dresden | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...cousin, Fritz von der Schulenburg, was hanged by the Nazis for his part in the unsuccessful 1944 coup against Hitler, and an uncle, Friedrich, prewar ambassador to Moscow, was shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No. I | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Jordan was again a first string lineman on the great Fritz Crisler team that made Tommy Harmon famous. He also retained his wrestling championship. After graduation, Jordan coached at two Michigan high schools and during the war he coached and played for various service outfits...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: UConn Hires Butch Jordan As Valpey's Backfield Aid | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Fritz Bultman, 30, confined himself largely to black, white and grey arrangements of what looked like moldy bones. According to the catalogue foreword, his pictures were not really abstract: "Rather they are religious, or moral, bereft of realistic pictorial detail for the same reason philosophy is shorn of particular verbal description of the life whose meaning it explores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Space Impelled | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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