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...Stravinsky. In halting English, which he has studied during the past year, Shostakovich confided to a U.S. newsman that of the new works he had heard he liked best Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, and Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger's Third ("Liturgique") Symphony. He considers Stravinsky and Gershwin the best U.S. composers (he likes Porgy and Bess particularly because "it is expressive of a people"). What did he think of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, which he also heard for the first time? Said he: "I like his other works...
...others: Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius...
...Igor Gouzenko, the Russian who ripped the veil from Soviet espionage in Canada, made last week what might be his final public appearance under his own name. The occasion was the trial in Montreal of Dr. Raymond Boyer, onetime Government explosives expert who is charged with conspiring to give secret information to Russia. While seven Mounties guarded the courtroom, Gouzenko testified briefly that Boyer's name had been on the list of Canadians who were helping the Russians. Then, his job done, he turned in the witness box, bowed to the Bench, walked to a door at the rear...
Since then Igor Gouzenko has been the most closely guarded man in Canada. His testimony has resulted in ten convictions (Boyer's trial is the last of those arrested...
Heiress Hutton had developed the snuffles. Presently a doctor was summoned. The bride took to bed with a cold, and Igor got an offer from Hollywood...