Word: peter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift of more than $100,000 from the wealthy, 75-year-old conductor, to be used for commissioning original compositions. The library was also establishing a Serge Koussevitzky Foundation Music Collection, consisting of manuscripts of 35 works commissioned by Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway run of 56 performances...
Newsmen seeking confirmation and comment searched in vain for Ingrid's husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, who has not seen her, except for a grim two-day visit, since she went to Italy in March to make a "different" movie. "Lolly" Parsons' story was two days old before anyone penetrated the Roman seclusion of Ingrid and Director Rossellini. Then the New York Times's studious Vatican correspondent, Camille M. Cianfarra, interviewed them in Ingrid's apartment. While the Swedish actress poured strong black coffee, Reporter Cianfarra managed to ask whether she was to become a mother early...
Reporters on the ship asked the inevitable question: How does it feel to be back? "Imagine," said Angus Ward, "how you'll feel on the day after Saint Peter lets...
...Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin, wearing a notably fancy mask which partygoers took to be a huge butterfly whipped up by a famous designer. She finally disclosed that she had made it herself out of some old tulle...
Inside U.S.A. (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy. Guest: Ethel Merman...