Word: montreux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found the right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...
...Ferdinand Berengar Victor of Prussia, 64, boorish third ("Sailor Boy") son of Kaiser Wilhelm II,† noted in his youth for love affairs, bad manners, and the fact that he spent much of World War I as a naval officer luxuriating in Bruges, Belgium; of a heart ailment; in Montreux, Switzerland...
Conductor Artur Rodzinski, haggard and unshaven, arrived in Salzburg three days late on his concert rehearsal schedule. Explaining his delay, he told friends that he and Moral Re-Armer Frank Buchman, attending an Oxford Group conference in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, had had a furious, long-drawn-out quarrel (Rodzinski did not say what about). Off to Rome on the next leg of his concert tour, the conductor asked a TIME correspondent to "spare me the doubtful honor of ever again calling me 'ardent Buchmanite...
World Federalists held their first organizational meeting of the year last night in Lowell Junior Common Room and elected permanent officers. Preceding the business meeting, a four-man student panel discussed the implications of the Montreux Declaration of the world movement for world government...
Problems discussed by the panel revolved around the question of the amount of power which should be delegated to a world government. The Montreux Declaration, framed by an international conference last summer called for a world government of very broad powers. Panel speaker David Baumman '51, stated that only a fairly limited world government proposal would be likely to be accepted by the United States...