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Hardly anybody had ever heard of the Stuttgart Ballet-a small dance com pany paid for out of public funds to supply divertissements occasionally interspersed in operas-until the Württem-berg State Theater director, Walter Erich Schäfer, had the insight to hire John Cranko and give him his head in 1961. Cranko started by firing half the dispirited little company he inherited, then went shopping all over the world for incipient talent to train. He also began establishing procedures which are, in the customarily authoritarian world of classical ballet, curiously family-like and informal. Deliberately, Cranko...
...only two up to last week still held out against the whip-snapping of Adolf Hitler's bullet-headed Realm Bishop Ludwig Müller (TIME, Oct 1 et ante). This bold pair were the provincial churches of Bavaria and Württemberg. Though 95% of Württem-berg's clergy had voted to support their anti-Nazi Bishop Theophil Wurm, the Nazi whip cracked early last week and Bishop Wurm, suspended last month, was permanently removed from office, placed under arrest in his home. That left only Bavaria and its Bishop Hans Meisser outside the fold...
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