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Without letting the word get out, the U.S. State Department last February expelled two Soviet diplomats for "espionage and improper activities." Sent packing were Commander Igor Amosov, assistant naval attachée, and Alexander Kovalyov, second secretary of the U.N. delegation. In May, under equally secret circumstances, the U.S. threw out another Soviet diplomat, Lieut. Colonel Leonid Pivnev, assistant air attacheé. The State
...FALL OF A TITAN (629 pp.)-Igor Gouzenko-Norton...
...precarious profession. His first to make jazz was called "The Band that Plays the Blues," which blew its way around a swing-crazy countryside from 1936 until it was broken up by the draft. In 1944 he organized the Herman Herd, the band whose piledriver precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that's all"-but his daemon kept driving...
...Happen (Sun. 8 p.m., (ABC). Hour documentary on aviation with Eddie Rickenbacker, Igor Sikorsky, Jimmy Doolittle, Glenn Martin, William Boeing...
Thanks to the devoted efforts of Claudio Spies, Instructor in Music, a Harvard audience heard the most recent manifestations of Igor Stravinsky's art-last Sunday evening in a Sanders Theatre concert. An instrumental Septet (1953), the Cantata (1952), and Three Songs from Shakespeare (1953) comprised the program. The quality of performance throughout was superb with the exception of William Hess' tenor; and its strained quality was probably attributable to a cold. Both Mr. Hess and mezzo-soprano Eunice Alberts mastered vocal parts of exceptional difficulty. The modulations of mood and expressiveness which Miss Alberts achieved were striking. The precision...