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Christmas Carols (The Deutschmeister Band, conducted by Julius Herrmann; Westminster Stereo). Stately performances by Austria's venerable military brass band of some familiar carols and some less familiar-In Dulci Jubilo, From o'er the Hills of Fair Judea-all of them emerging in richly burnished sound...
...David Randolph; Westminster Stereo). The serious collector of carols could scarcely do better than this album. The Randolph group sings with sensitivity and precision, and the selections are ones that the listener is not likely to stumble across in a month of Christmases: Patapan; Saint Staffan; Quid Petis, O Fili; Bring a Torch, Jeanette...
...beseech thee, O Lord Almighty, master of the world, distributor of all properties, bless this house wherein shall be received and distributed the compulsory and just part of the riches of our community. Give to those who bring their taxes a spirit of detachment and sacrifice, to those who come to receive payment some of the spirit of wealth praised by our Lord Jesus Christ in the Book of Matthew...
...Harvard should be ashamed," asserted Robert O. Muller '34, who compared the graffito unfavorably with designs made in desk grooves by bored students "during some of the lesser lectures...
...with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave and shuts up his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley, taken to Rome and adopted by a Roman admiral (Jack Hawkins) whose life he has saved. As soon as possible, he goes back to Palestine, hears that his mother and sister are dead, enters against Messala...