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Before the surprised U.S. State Department could do more than say: "This is extremely interesting news," the convention had voted, 34 to 3, to reject union with the U.S. The Evening Telegram nodded approvingly: "It is inconceivable that the people of Newfoundland were prepared to betray their allegiance for a mess of pottage...
...explanation that did not satisfy such protesters as the Metropolitan Opera, Fiorello LaGuardia or Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, longtime friend of Puccini, made public his telegram to President Truman: "[I] implore you to forbid this greedy diversion of great Italian musical art . . . you, who are a passionate lover of music...
Said the-other: "Before the war, when another university wanted to borrow a professor even for a six-month lectureship, they wrote a polite letter asking our permission. Now they just send a telegram direct to the professor, offering him a permanent job. The only way I hear about it is if I happen to run into the professor with his furniture on his back...
Printemps'), . . . The divagations from Stravinsky . . . are not of creative significance." Said the entranced World-Telegram: "He [Messiaen] seems to stand before a shrine, chanting the vision he beholds ... a sort of fluttering commotion spread over the music." Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, who has labored to introduce Messiaen's music to the U.S., was slightly flummoxed. Wrote he: ". . . powerful and original music . . . it is our obligation as listeners ... to get inside [it], since [it does] not easily penetrate our customary concert psychology...
...reception hall of the Atlanta Journal's 50,000-watt Station WSB ("Welcome South, Brother"), hang three plaques-awards from Variety for outstanding community service. Last week Manager John M. Outler tacked up a telegram announcing that the station had just won a fourth-for improvement of race relations in race-riven Georgia...