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Behind the Iron Curtain, a Mimeographed bulletin published by Josef Josten, a Czech refugee editor. If, as suspected, Communists were the thieves, they had good cause to fear Editor Josten's tiny bulletin. In three years, his "Free Czech Information" service has proved uncannily accurate on what is happening, and about to happen, behind Russia's curtain...
When President Truman announced the first Russian atomic explosion on Sept. 23, 1949, the daily press was already scooped: Josten had turned out the same news in his bulletin 30 hours before. Again, while Prague's Communist Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis was safe at the United Nations, Josten's paper warned him of a Red plot to sack him; Clementis disregarded it, returned to Prague, and, three months later, was sacked, and finally disappeared completely...
...Stokowski raised their batons over the country's leading orchestras. As usual, and contrary to advance notices which promised conventional music for the troublous times (TIME, Sept. 12), Stokowski produced the weirdest sounds. Four-fifths of his first audience walked out early when he not only played Werner Josten's Jungle but repeated...
...nearby Amherst wore conventional wigs and furbelows. It was Handel's clear, direct music and the finish with which it was given that won Rodelinda highest praise yet for a Smith premiere from the metropolitan critics. The orchestra, composed mostly of Smith girls, played surely, maturely. Professor Werner Josten, conducting, clearly displayed the intelligence and energy which have been responsible for Smith's operatic achievements...
...flower of contemporary music, he second number will be especially noteworthy. Professor Josten of Smith is a composer and conductor of recognised prowess. His bent is toward the primitive and naturalistic, rather than the mechanistic, and the subject of his selection is one in which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms...