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...small Alpine town near Trent where he was born, the son of a minor tax official, was part of Franz Josef's Austro-Hungarian empire. A passionate Italian Irridentist at 17 and a political prisoner before he got out of school, De Gasperi got his first legislative experience in the Austrian Parliament (he still speaks excellent German, as well as good French, hesitant but serviceable English...
...namesake, former (1932-33) Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey (born Josef Paul Cuckoschay...
...past dozen years a South African balladeer named Josef Marais has been quietly building a reputation as a specialist in folk and children's songs. He and his Dutch wife Miranda accompany themselves-playing a guitar, tom-toms and an occasional native instrument, he chanting in English and Afrikaans, she piping a shy descant. But in the past year Minstrel Marais has turned popular songsmith. His songs of the veld, such as Sugarbush, Ay-round the Corner and the fast-rising Ma Says, Pa Says, have been recorded by such big-league songbirds as Jo Stafford and Doris...
...baton six years ago on one condition: his board of directors must give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." Since then, he has increased the orchestra's size from 82 to 96, and hired a score or so of musicians (among them Concertmaster Josef Gingold from Detroit) from other organizations. Today, Conductor Szell is content: the Cleveland personnel is "as good as any conductor could wish for." With a whopping $5,000,000 endowment and willing contributors to the annual deficit drive (this year: $110,000), the orchestra's economic position is also...
Czechoslovakia. To a conference of Consumer Cooperatives in Prague, Communist Party Secretary Josef Tesla announced "great deficiencies" in coal production. Food Minister Ludmila Jankoucova broadcast an appeal for wheelbarrows and carts to ease a "transport crisis" on the Czech railroads. Both seemed anxious to lay the blame on Slansky & Co., who were even then headed for the gallows. As if in explanation, Radio Prague played recordings from the trial testimony of Ludvik Frejka, who was author of the Czechoslovakian two-and five-year plans...