Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago, when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations began a study of labor racketeering, it called in Teamster officers to testify on their use of union funds. The union brass, charging the subcommittee with a lack of jurisdiction, flatly refused to answer questions about their stewardship-e.g.: Had they used union funds to pay Dave Beck's personal bills? -and some of them took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment. Adding to Subcommittee Chairman John L. McClellan's ire, and to the growing concern of many members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s executive council...
...piano, almost gets lost between the other two, but Bernstein is a strongly talented pianist and probably could be a great one if he took the time (currently his piano repertory includes only half a dozen concertos). At Carnegie Hall last month, he played Ravel's Piano Concerto in G ? after five months without so much as five hours of practice ? while conducting the orchestra from the key board. The critics raved: "Miracle in music . . . absolute perfection...
...Died. G. (for Gilbert) Mason Owlett, 64, jowly, mossbacked lieutenant of Pennsylvania's old Republican boss. Senator Joe Grundy, onetime (1933-41) state senator and Republican National Committeeman, who in 1943 took over his mentor's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (which for years ran two insurance companies, a dozen state senators and some 50 representatives, held the balance of political power in the state); of a pulmonary embolism; in Philadelphia...
...chemistry William A. Klemperer '50 is a expert on infra-red spectra. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California. Also appointed was Francis G. A. Stone, who is concerned with inorganic chemistry and molecular structure. He is engaged in research with Eugene G. Rochow, professor of Chemistry...
...music of the neoclassicists and the modernists, he said simply, is "not music for me." He was never notably a pioneer, though he introduced some of the music of his contemporaries (Pagliacci in 1892, La Bohème in 1896, the first performances in Italy of Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Siegfried). His abiding interest was "to come closer to the secrets of Beethoven and a few other eternal masters." For the majority of musicians, music lovers and critics the world over, he came closer to realizing the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner and Verdi than...