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...Final Clearance. He was a man who stubbornly insisted he could never take politics seriously ("Ich bin Künstler"-I am an artist), but he let the Nazis make him head of their Reichsmusikkammer (State Chamber of Music) in 1933. He resigned when the Nazis irritated him by criticizing his "non-Aryan" librettists, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (who had died in 1929) and Stefan Zweig. Last year, Strauss was finally cleared by a denazification court...
...comes on the air pretending to be a newsboy, hawking the day's headlines in rhymes which frequently poke fun at the Communists. Her most popular tagline, delivered in a knowing, childish singsong, comes at the end of her report of any pompous Communist proclamation: "Das versteh' ich nicht," she says wonderingly, "das versteh' ich wirklich nicht! [That I don't understand, that I really don't understand!]." Throughout the Soviet zone, her phrase appears morning after morning scribbled below some grandiose Communist poster...
...idea of what was coming. In the courtroom at Nürnberg last year, while his trial droned on, he doodled on a sheet of paper. On one sheet he drew a wooden gallows with 13 steps leading to the rope and noose. Beneath it he wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt, Himmler's physician, and bearded, Mephistophelean SS Colonel Wolfram Sievers, Military Research Institute head...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). The 105-year-old orchestra, starting its 18th year on CBS, with Leopold Stokowski conducting Bach's Ich Steh' mit Einem Fuss im Grabe; Brahms's Symphony No. 2 in D Major; Debussy's Nuages...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...