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There are some who now argue that Charles Edward Ives is the finest com poser the U.S. has produced. But back in 1945, when Schoenberg singled him out, Ives was a name only to a handful of professionals, though he had anticipated Schoenberg's experiments in atonality by two decades. Not until two years later did really popular recognition begin to even the score. When Ives got the 1947 Pulitzer Prize (for a composition that lay unplayed in his West Redding, Conn, barn for more than 40 years), he was already 72. Last week, when the first American recording...
Does Princess Margaret still love Peter Townsend? Into print in the U.S. last week loomed the latest answer to the old poser: The Peter Townsend Story, by Political Journalist Norman Barrymaine, a friend of Townsend's. Barrymaine, leaning heavily on unidentified sources, says that the princess is still that way about her old flame, once told him that she "was too deeply in love with him ever to marry anyone else." "My belief," says Barrymaine, without unearthing any new evidence, "is that Princess Margaret would still like to marry Peter Townsend," although "at the moment the religious and political...
...Poser. Reporter Bulloch, 49, a wiry (5 ft. 6 in., 130 lbs.), Texas-born family man and Episcopal churchgoer, has faced hazards before. In 1947 he was threatened with death for writing a series that led to conviction of an out-of-state gang that had tried to take over Oklahoma's bootleg industry. Another Bulloch series ended with the biggest liquor and gambling raids in Oklahoma history. In 1952 Bulloch was warned again, and the Mayes County prosecutor was killed during a gambling investigation on which they had worked together. After he reported buying absentee ballots simply...
...gifted and exciting teacher ? not only at home in all the world's music, but sensitively capable of relating it to the here and now. Two of his TV lectures have recently been released on records ? along with three other disks presenting Conductor, Com poser and Pianist Bernstein...
...Biggest poser for the architects was Pollard's snoring, which has been so loud that his wife Peggy often banished him to a guest room. Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons solved the problem by designing a sort of glass-enclosed sponsor's booth in a corner of the master bedroom. Once the house is finished, Dick may be seen but not heard...