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Died. Walther Funk, 69, Hitler's Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nürnberg Tribunal in 1946, but released in 1957 because of ill health; of a heart attack; in Düsseldorf, Germany...
...named Dame Commander, British Empire. Seven years later Dame Laura became the third female in 200 years to crack the hallowed full membership of the Royal Academy of Art. When the British government wanted someone to record the evil and drama of the Nürnberg trials after World War II, it chose Dame Laura...
...never got a law degree (he did not complete his undergraduate education until 1947). A small-town Texan, he got into practice by reading the law in books that he bought on credit, became a top Dallas attorney and served as U.S. executive counsel at the Nürnberg war crimes trials. Asked to become dean of S.M.U.'s low-grade law school in 1947, he built it into a thriving, well-financed institution, one of the country's best. Four years later he launched the Legal Center (TIME, April 30, 1951; Sept. 10, 1956), a brilliant idea...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Rebroadcast of Trial at Nürnberg, narrated by Walter Cronkite...
...tautly dramatic background to the soloists' soaring vocal lines, and in some sequences Blomdahl abandoned the orchestra altogether in favor of taped electronic effects. One scene unfolds against a Jabberwockian mixture that includes the speaking voices of Eisenhower. Khrushchev, Hitler, Mussolini and the defendants at the Nürnberg trials...