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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Composer in the Wings. The first music Victor de Sabata ever conducted was a composition of his own, at the Milan Conservatory-at the age of twelve. Six years later, La Scala produced his first opera, Il Macigno. When Toscanini brought the La Scala orchestra to the U.S. on tour in 1920-1, he played De Sabata's symphonic poem Juventus on every program. Now better known as conductor than composer, De Sabata insists with a smile that his is "a beastly profession." He swears he would rather have his two children, Elios, 17, and Eliana, 13, be "thieves...
This morning the Key will conduct the University's official guests on a tour of the school. It will also deliver tickets for today's game to the special visitors...
When he returned to Michigan in 1946 after his tour with the Eighth Airforce, Madar wasn't able to report for spring practice because a torn cartilage had to be removed from his knee. The operation was successful and in the fall, Elmer caught enough passes and blasted enough ball carriers to make almost every all-American first team listing...
Finally launching his long-deferred North American tour (the U.S. refused him a visa until he got a non-subversive sponsor), the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had one more little run-in with authority (Canadian) at the Montreal airport. But it was only a "technical detail," about passport stamps, soon cleared up. His speech in Windsor, Ont. was briefly interrupted when a heckler loudly disagreed with the Dean's contention that free elections are held in Russia "all the time...
...Christian missions in China? Yes-but not for the institutionalized missions of the recent past. To make any headway in a China overrun by Communism, missionaries will have to go back to Christian beginnings. So says Journalist Robert Root of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, just back from a tour of the Orient...