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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Songwriter Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael was not sure he was quite up to the job. "I know my limitations . . . I'm not a student of music." But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a native Indianian, and that was more than most of the other invited composers could say as they began to compose short symphonic pieces for the centennial of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916). "I got on the telephone with [Indianapolis Symphony Conductor] Fabien Sevitzky and told him what I had in mind," said Hoagy. "He encouraged...
...tone poem in his memory since boyhood. He was born in Bloomington, six miles from hilly, rural Brown County, and often went there on fall outings. Brown County in Autumn had "written itself," he said, "just like any song that I compose." It was melodic "because I'm a melody man and I've always thought there should be a little more melody for the average symphony patron." It opened with a slightly somber daybreak. The music went into full action with the purples and reds of the leaves, rose to a peak in the description...
...quyet nhat dinh rang nhung nguoi thiêt mênh o dây se không phai là nhung nguoi dã chet vô ích . . ." With this stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
...books are a combined operation of the Office of International Information, which wrote the scripts and did the translating, and of 33-year-old M. Philip Copp, a former Manhattan art agent who underbid comic-book publishers for the $24,000 contract. To do the eight four-page, black & white biographies, Copp hired Artists Bruno Premiani and William Draut, two veterans of Wild West comics...
...except for a grim two-day visit, since she went to Italy in March to make a "different" movie. "Lolly" Parsons' story was two days old before anyone penetrated the Roman seclusion of Ingrid and Director Rossellini. Then the New York Times's studious Vatican correspondent, Camille M. Cianfarra, interviewed them in Ingrid's apartment. While the Swedish actress poured strong black coffee, Reporter Cianfarra managed to ask whether she was to become a mother early next year...