Word: ops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dvorak: In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting; Victor; 4 sides). A charming bit of nostalgic Czech musical landscape painting. Performance and recording: good...
Rundstedt Retreat. Tilburg, 's Hertogenbosch, Breda, Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom were the bolt positions in the German line from the Maas to the Scheldt estuary. All five had fallen this week without much of a fight. Allied airmen reported columns of German transports scuttling north to the rivers...
...from Antwerp to the isthmus. They captured part of the town of Woensdrecht; for a time they held the road leading to South Beveland, and they brought the railway under artillery fire. But the Germans, still the masters of the prompt counterattack, struck swiftly with reinforcements from Bergen op Zoom...
Schubert: Sonata No. 9, Op. 120 (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia; 3 sides). Delightfully lyric Schubert, affectionately played. Recording: excellent...
...office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...