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Future offerings may include a number of Beethoven symphonies recorded with the New York Philharmonic during the 1930s, a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 on Feb. 20, 1936, at which Rudolf Serkin made his New York debut, and one of the most celebrated underground Toscanini recordings of all-the 1940 version of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, which has better soloists (Zinka Milanov, Jussi Bjoerling, both in their prime) and a more powerful style than the 1953 recording now available...
...giving Painter Andrew Wyeth a one-man show in the nation's grandest gallery-the White House. To celebrate the event, Nixon is holding a formal banquet in honor of the Wyeths, topped by a reception at which the 200-odd guests will be entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else...
Died. James B. Donovan, 53, New York lawyer who negotiated the trade of convicted Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. Appointed to defend Abel at his 1957 trial, Donovan convinced U.S. authorities it was in their interest to spare the agent's life and use him as trade bait; after Powers was captured, his proposition paid off. During 1962-63 he also negotiated the release of 9,700 Bay of Pigs prisoners, their relatives and other political hostages...
...latest demands have been heard at Der Spiegel, West Germany's influential weekly newsmagazine. Publisher Rudolf Augstein, 46, himself a liberal, has responded by offering his employees 50% of Spiegel's ownership and profits and something of a voice in its management. By so doing, he may spare Spiegel the uproar that the movement has caused at three other major publications, the French dailies Figaro and Le Monde and the LIFE-like German magazine Der Stern...
Ever since he was captured by the British 28 years ago, Nazi Germany's onetime Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess has steadfastly refused to see his wife and son. It was beneath the dignity of a high official, he explained, to permit his family to see him in prison. Now 75 and suffering from a duodenal ulcer, Hess was transferred in November from Berlin's Spandau prison to a British military hospital. There, in a room with guards but no bars, Hess last week finally was reunited with his wife Use, who runs a tiny...