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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mozart's Due in B-flat is numbered 424 in the Kocchel catalog, but it sounds much carlier. Mozartean good spirits are here in abundance, but the work lacks a melodic and rhythmic inventiveness. Mr. Fuchs and his less famous but thoroughly accomplished sister reached the heart of the music from the very start. They played with precision, but not of the machine-gun variety. Every phrase received individual treatment, according to what preceded and proceeded it, as well as to its own unique factors. In addition to being consistent with the music, the two interpretations were consistent with each...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: John and Lillian Fuchs | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Sciences as well as a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Society of America. These honors in someone else might betoken a staid and settled dignity, but in Miss Cam they are landmarks in a life that has kept forever on the move. At nearly seventy, she and her sister jostled across the United States sitting up in a train, to take a bus trip up and down the West Coast--a trip that she had never been able to afford when at Bryn Mawr...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The First Lady | 3/5/1954 | See Source »

...muscles in a quick swim. Two hours later he was airborne again, and at sundown, one windy day last week, he landed at Washington's National Airport for a routine welcome home. There was a whispered briefing from Under Secretary Bedell Smith, a kiss from Dulles' sister, an ambassadorial handshake from France, Britain and West Germany. Then Dulles headed for his office to map a campaign on the issue that was suddenly blowing up a home-front storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Living Dangerously | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Crown Prince Jean, 33, heir to Luxembourg's throne, and Princess Josephine Charlotte, 26, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium: their first child, a daughter; in Luxembourg. Name: Princess Marie Astrid. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...itself with the attempts of the father's released cell mate to make the children reveal the money. It is the ten year old son that is the hero of the novel. Never quite grasping the significance of "those green pieces of paper," protecting his trusting five year old sister from the sinister hunter, he endures hardships as only a child could: "the most dreadful and moving thing of all was the humbling grace with which these small ones accept their lot. They would weep at a broker toy but stand with the courage of a burning saint before...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Night of the Hunter | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

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