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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (the London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides). Chicagoans and other record buyers can hear what they missed a fortnight ago when the U.S. Government halted Conductor Krips at Ellis Island (TIME, July 31). Here, in the familiar "Unfinished," he displays a fine sense of pulse and dynamics, achieves a startling clarity of texture. Recording: excellent...
...Josef Krips, a vain but capable musician, is a man pursued by governments...
...Adolf Hitler's Germany, Sculptor Josef Thorak had a big job: official sculptor of the Third Reich. His huge statuary was to decorate the squares and public buildings of the city that Hitler was to make the "thousand-year capital" of the Reich. To house Thorak's enormous work in preparation, some of it six stories high and weighing 1,000 tons, the Führer built him a studio as high and wide as a Zeppelin hangar. When the job proved to be insecure, Sculptor Thorak retired to semiobscurity in Bavaria...
Sitting among his stone giants last week, Josef Thorak was asked what he thought of his old patron's taste in art. "He understood me," said Thorak finally, "and if what I do is art, he understood...
Married. Libeth Adenauer, 22, youngest daughter of West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Hermann Josef Werhahn, 26, son of a Ruhr banker; at Maria Laach, Germany...