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Last week, confronted with an enemy who had already recruited a German army of his own, and encouraged, though with some misgivings, by the Western Allies, West Germany took the first steps to raise a new Wehrmacht. It tell to a sober, pale German official named Theodor Blank to broadcast the details of a new 300,000-to 400,000-man German military machine with...
According to the pale orange program booklet handed out before last Friday's Boston, Symphony Orchestra concert, Berlioz' "Harold in Italy" (Symphony' in Four Parts with Viola Solo) is the musical story of a poet "wandering about the Italian countryside (represented by the orchestra) adding his individual comment (the viola part) to the scenes which passed before his eyes." In last Friday's performance, both the soloist, William Primrose, and the audience added some comment that Berlioz had not figured...
...lived from camp to camp with his wife and four children: Olga, now 19; Roman, 18; Irena, 16; and Eugenia, 15. Recently he got an offer to move to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm near Buffalo. The family packed and got set to go. Then pale Olga pressed her flat chest against the X-ray plate: a spot on one lung-active TB. Ineligible...
...figure paintings. His tame, placid portrait of a plump-armed girl won top honors at the 1945 Carnegie exhibition of U.S. painting. Three years ago, Guston turned his back on easy success, joined the abstractionist ranks. His latest exhibition in a Manhattan gallery features huge canvases thinly blotched with pale colors, and greyish ribbons of paint trailing, snail-like, over slush-hued backgrounds. His sketch for the exhibition catalogue, an apparently random doodle of short, jerky dashes, is a fair sample of the new Guston. His reason for the change: "I was unhappy...
Madame Murashkina proved to be a grandmother and an engineer, a pale, thin woman of 47 with drawn-back grey hair, austerely dressed in a rough tweed suit, shapeless black hat, flat-heeled shoes and rayon stockings. With her was a smart blond translator, a huge Russian MVD guard, and two solemn Tass reporters. Everybody was at the station to meet her except Mrs. Weston. The mayor said his wife had a cold, but gossips called it a diplomatic illness. Next day, to give gossips the lie, Mayoress Weston put on her hat, went to see Murashkina at her flat...