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...Santa Klaus is the Dutch name for St. Nicholas, a Fourth Century bishop of Myra in Lycia. The patron saint of Russia, and of thieves, and boys & girls, he traditionally championed the weak against the strong, the poor against the rich. In 1941 the pseudo-cultural Ossewa Brand-wag (Ox Wagon) society denounced him as "a foreign importation unsuited to the ideals of the Afrikaners." Possibly because both Santa and Smuts wear white beards and benignity, the O.B. suggested that South African Christmas gifts should be brought by one Oupa (Grandfather) Voortrekker in an ox wagon...
...Some recent two-footed guests: Eleanor Roosevelt, Dame Myra Hess, Louis Bromfield...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Wagner's Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture, Emperor Concerto. Soloist: Pianist Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
Dorn plays Leopold Goronoff, as great a conductor and pianist as his name would suggest, and personally accounts for fourteen of the twenty-three Rachmaninoff tidbits. He discovers a budding young pianistic genius on a Pennsylvania farm in the person of Myra Hassman, who plays the Concerto twenty-seven times and addresses Goronoff incessantly as "Maestro." At her New York debut she plays guess what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading...
Boston Symphony Orchestra (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Debussy's Nuages, Fetes; Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. Soloist: Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Sergei Koussevitzky...