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Debussy: La Mer (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Toscanini has never been satisfied with his own, or anyone else's, navigations of this impressionistic evocation of the sea. In this, his first recording, his performance has subtlety, majesty, color and power-and less perfumery than most conductors give the piece. Recording: excellent...
Noting that Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson had agreed to do the commentary for the Toscanini-NBC Symphony recording of Debussy's La Mer, which will be released this fall, the New York Times's Book Columnist David Dempsey concluded: "This opens up practically unlimited possibilities for authors who would like to do a little music commentating oji the side. Hemingway could take Carmen; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Flying Dutchman; Lin Yutang, Chopsticks...
...says Francesco Mer from Thayer 3 and Florence, Italy, "it's informal, friendly atmosphere, less tense. For instance, one thing good is a dining hall, it gives a sense of community and unity. And these visiting professors like Mr. Emmanuel, he is a poet himself, not only a scholar but a lively literary spirit...
Poland. Nine high military staff officers, four of them generals, several of them for mer members of the anti-nazi Polish underground, are on trial, charged with spying for the West. A tenth is in jail. Deportation of "unessential" people from towns to rural areas is causing widespread unrest and desperate efforts to escape (see below). In Warsaw an estimated 40,000 former government workers, doctors, lawyers, and small businessmen have been ordered deported by the Communist police...