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...Washington the more conservative Corcoran jury, made up of Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams Jr., Metropolitan Museum Curator of Paintings Theodore Rousseau Jr. and Philadelphia Museum Painting Curator Henry Clifford, took three days to weed through 1,643 submitted paintings. Then they underlined by their choices the two trends they felt most evident in the heavily abstract field: i) a move toward more recognizable subject matter, and 2) a surprising strength in oldtime geometric abstractions. Loren Maclver's softly luminous The Street (see next spread), which carried off first honors, was called by one juror "very, very sensitive...
...single industrial operation, is the base of the Röchlings' 250-year-old empire, which spills into West Germany with a coal field near Aachen, a steel business at Mannheim, an iron works at Wetzlar. The family's real rise to power began under sword-scarred Hermann Röchling, prime mover of the Saar's vast industrial buildup of the early 1900s. As a war mobilizer in the Kaiser's army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping of French iron and steel plants in occupied areas. Later the victorious...
...approach to labor, their record for holding employment steady. In the 1930s, when German and French steel plants were laying off workers, Röchling held its full labor force by falling back on reserves, developing new, cost-cutting production techniques. Playing on popular sympathy to achieve political leadership, Hermann Röchling cried for Anschluss with the German Fatherland. In 1935 the Saarlanders voted overwhelmingly to join Germany...
During World War II, Rochling bossed Lorraine's iron and steel production plus Saarland industry. At war's end, an Allied court found Hermann Röchling guilty of waging aggressive war, the first industrialist so convicted, jailed him for two years. After Hermann's death at 83 last year, administration of the family empire fell to his nephew Ernst Röchling, 66, who in 1949 had been sentenced to five years behind French barbed wire...
Mozart: Requiem (the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Westminster Choir, conducted by Bruno Walter on a Columbia LP; Vienna Symphony and State Opera Chorus conducted by Eugen Jochum on Decca; Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Academy Chamber Choir conducted by Hermann Scherchen on London Ducretet-Thomson). The limpid choruses of Mozart's last work have always resisted the efforts of record makers, and are still a bit troublesome on these three latest versions. Conductor Walter's has a certain dramatic excitement but also a rather thick tone; Scherchen's (in the same performance recorded two years...