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Frank Glazer Plays Musical Autographs (Concert-Disc). The musical calling cards of the great composers as they were inscribed in various souvenir albums. Included are Mozart's Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...principles-which Eliot once oversimplified in his self-description as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature, and a royalist in politics." Lapsing into angry prose, Author Purcell elaborately accuses Missouri-born Thomas Stearns Eliot of being a reactionary, a Christian, an American, a spoilsport and ployer of anti-lifemanship, a sociologically irresponsible escapist. In a typical passage, Purcell complains that "The very great improvement in the living conditions of the working classes" after World War I was "of no concern" to Eliot-which is about as irrelevant as panning Shakespeare for being a jingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweeney & the Mockingbirds | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...could get there, the bomber pancaked into the smooth field, exploded, broke in two, spouted flames. In spite of the danger of more explosions, the two young officers wrapped their coats over their heads, plunged straight into the blaze, dragged out Leslie Tower, chief Boeing test pilot and Major Ployer P. Hill, flying chief at Wright Field, both badly burned. The other three occupants managed to crawl out by themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Broken Boeings | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

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