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...some 80 years Russian music had been strongly influenced by "The Five"- César Cui, an engineer; Modest Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov), a government clerk and famed tosspot; Alexander Borodin (Prince Igor), a doctor; Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov, a naval officer; Mily Balakirev, a professional musician. In opposition to the international style of Tchaikovsky, "The Five" believed that the source of Russian music should be Russian-folk songs and church music. Igor Stravinsky (Petrouchka, The Fire Bird) continued this nationalist tradition, though he later abandoned it for severe and arid abstractions...
...SAR BORJA...
Died. César Campinchi, 58, lean, volcanic Corsican, one of the great criminal lawyers of his time, Minister of the Marine in the last government of Republican France; after an operation; in Marseille. He unceasingly opposed the Munich policy, fled with Daladier and Mandel to North Africa when the Army collapsed last June, unlike them was never interned to be tried for treason...
Elected King of Ak-Sar-Ben ("Nebraska" backwards) at Omaha's fall festival was bald, bulging William Martin Jeffers, 50 years ago a Union Pacific roundhouse callboy, since 1937 Union Pacific's president...
Despite the weather, the party was a huge success. The publicity paradise reached seventh heaven at Ak-Sar-Ben's coliseum, where 8,000 funsters unanimously nominated Gracie for President. Making her acceptance speech, Candidate Allen squirmed uncomfortably, kept tugging at her hips, finally blurted: "My girdle is killing...