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...among nations and ideas. Born in London, brought up in Switzerland, educated at Harvard, he worked for the State Department in Washington, for the League of Nations in Geneva, for the OSS in wartime Europe, for the Unitarian Service Committee in France. After the war, he and his brother Hermann sauntered through the Iron Curtain countries like welcome guests. Whittaker Chambers said Noel was a friend of Alger Hiss and a Communist agent; the Communists said he worked for the U.S. "imperialists." His sister said Noel and his whole family were just "Quaker-Liberals" who were "arch-individualists...
Other new records: Bartok: Piano Concertos No. 2 & No. 3 (Edith Farnadi; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hermann Scherchen; Westminster). Hungary's late composer Bartok was happily teaching in Switzerland in 1931 when he set down the slashing, almost barbaric strains of No. 2. He was still 18 bars from the end of No. 3, a comparatively serene but equally intricate work, when he died in 1945 in Manhattan. Both pieces here get superior readings and recordings...
...Died. Hermann Ehlers, 50, president of West Germany's Bundestag and top Protestant member of the Christian Democratic Union; of a heart attack, following an operation on abscessed tonsils; in Oldenburg. An expert parliamentarian, Lawyer Ehlers was elected to the Bundestag in 1949, brought religious harmony and gave wider voter appeal to the predominantly Roman Catholic C.D.U. through his deft leadership of the party's Protestant wing...
...Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, by Hermann Hagedorn. A fine old romp with Teddy and all the kids (TIME...
...Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for August, is an album of Teddy and family from the turn of the century through World War I. Author Hermann Hagedorn, a former Harvard English instructor who has written or edited six previous books on T.R. (The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands), knew and loved the family well. His camera is sometimes less than candid, but even when freckles and awkward angles are airbrushed out, his snapshots are warm, intimate closeups that usually show what the outsider wants...