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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very fine wrap-up of the Andrea Doria-Stockholm disaster, but would like to point out that the point where the liner was hit was not the starboard "quarter" but the waist. The quarter is the stern section of a ship...
...program, hundreds of foreigners like London's Catherine O'Connell have come to the U.S., while more than 2,000 Americans have taught abroad. Last week the Queen Elizabeth landed 100 more Britons, who were duly greeted in Manhattan by Cornelius McLaughlin, head of the teacher-exchange section at the Office of Education. By the time the summer is over, the total number of exchange teachers sent to the U.S. will have reached 1,543. Of the many U.S. good-will efforts, the program may be minor. But it has also been one of the best...
Every man in the early Ellington band-as in today's-was a soloist, and the music they played was unlike anything anyone had ever heard. Recalls a friend: "One time at the Cotton Club the entire brass section arose and delivered such an intricate and unbelievably integrated chorus that Eddy Duchin, who was in the audience, literally rolled on the floor under his table-in ecstasy." Says Ellington: "We didn't think of it as jazz; we thought of it as Negro music...
...Western melodic lines that so characteristically turned back on themselves--which suffused the whole with a subtle, intoxicating exoticism. An important role went to a solo viola, superbly played by Jean Comstock, which expressed itself in a manner always wistful and often melancholy. Vaughan Williams inserted before each section in his manuscript brief verses from the Song of Solomon; and Schmidt hit on the bright idea of having Kenneth Costin narrate these at the appropriate spots in the music. The balance of chorus, viola and piano was kept perfect throughout. The singers were in absolutely peak form, and gave forth...
...most clangorous of all these bells once sounded from the white Church of the Patron Saints of Italy, where cheerful, cherubic, chain-smoking Don Cesare Polidori tends his flock in a section known for toughness even in tough Trastevere. Hard by the famous Thieves' Market is a district whose bitter poverty made it a hiving hotspot for trouble-brewing Communists, Don Cesare's bells had rung through every feast in the 14 years of his ministry. More important, perhaps, they rang when there was no feasting, for Don Cesare, troubled by the fact that more than half...