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Blood for Blood. These were brave words, but they did not solve the problem of burgeoning Russian influence in Europe and in the Far East. Nor did they obviate the fact that many aspects of U.S. policy, including overtures to the Austrian Habsburgs, the Darlans, the Hungarian Horthys of Europe, are bound to drive Joseph Stalin even farther from any real collaboration with his nominal allies. Walter Duranty, the almost forgotten expert on Russia, last week gave his version of Russia's position in Europe...
Bela, Bartok, noted Hungarian pianist, composer, and authority on folk music, joined the depleted ranks of Harvard's Music Department Tuesday afternoon by giving the first in a series of lectures under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund at the Music Building before a small but appreciative audience...
...career to date. In 1890 at the age of nine, Bartok first composed some pieces for piano, and a year later made his public debut as pianist and composer. In 1893 he entered Pressburg, where he studied largely under Dohnanyi, and six years later he left for the Royal Hungarian Academy of Budapest. Throughout these years Bartok went through successive periods under the influence first of Brahms, then Lizt and Wagner, later Richard Strauss and Magyar folk music. With the failure of the new Hungarian Music Society in which he played a major role, Bartok, not yet appreciated...
...haired, olive-skinned, hazel-eyed Georgia O'Keeffe was born 55 years ago in Sun Prairie, Wis. Her father was an Irish farmer, her mother was Hungarian. After the family moved to Williamsburg, Va., in 1901, Georgia decided to become a painter, studied at the Chicago Art Institute and at Manhattan's Art Students League, where she was known as "Patsy." A winter of painting as her teachers taught it convinced her that she could not paint at all. She worked as a commercial artist in Chicago, a public-school art supervisor in Amarillo, Tex. She calls Texas...
Bela Bartok, internationally known Hungarian composer and authority on Balkan folk songs and modern music, will join the University teaching staff during the spring term, Professor Arthur T. Merritt, chairman of the department of Music, revealed recently...