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Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Guitarist Andres Segovia and Dancers Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn appear with the Bell Telephone Orchestra. Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Spotlight on the top news story of the week...
Slow Start. The boom in guitar playing started slowly about five years ago. Some credit the flood of new records, where listeners learned from Andrés Segovia what range the guitar was capable of. There was Burl Ives and then Elvis Presley to prove that anyone could play. And along came the records of such beguiling folk singers as Woody Guthrie, Richard Dyer-Bennet and Pete Seeger...
...about $50 for a dozen six-piece settings, or fine crystal goblets at $24 a dozen (but the renter may have to pay $240 for the whole set if one goblet breaks). The New York Circulating Library of Paintings rents out its collection of contemporary works (Brackman, Segovia Jr., Purdy, etc.) for as little as $8 a month. And anybody who has everything but the kitchen sink can get that at the Lee Sam Plumbing & Heating Supply Co. in Manhattan...
...Rorimer, who was later to be director of The Cloisters and now runs the whole Met Rorimer set out for Paris, and after months of questioning and searching, he found that the apse was not in France but in the tiny village of Fuentiduena 45 miles north of Segovia. There it had once been part of a church dedicated to St. Martin (316-397), the great Bishop of Tours whose cult had spread from France to Spain. Though the apse was nothing but a shell exposed to the weather and was not even pictured in a single Spanish book...
...help of the U.S. embassy, he began negotiations. After ten years, the government agreed to "lend" the apse to The Cloisters if the Met in turn would buy six Spanish frescoes to "lend" to the Prado and undertake the restoration of another church in Fuentiduena. The Bishop of Segovia agreed to the transaction, after clearing it with the Vatican...