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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent." Molotov at Berlin last year bluntly said no even when Austria and the three Western occupying powers agreed to accept all Soviet conditions. Soviet forces must remain in Austria, Molotov hastily insisted, until a German peace treaty was signed. But a few months ago Russia abruptly changed its tune, suggested that Raab come to Moscow to talk things over. Shining Sun. It was snowing on the Moscow airport. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov remarked to a Western diplomat that he had hoped for better weather to greet the Austrians. Said the diplomat: "In these cases, Mr. Minister, the weather that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Mission to Moscow | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...extremely skeptical ..." ¶ In the German town of Darmstadt-Eberstadt (pop. 15,000), Protestant and Roman Catholic church bells rang out in new ecumenical harmony. The Catholic bells' low C,D,F,G and the Evangelical bells' higher G,B,C,D formed (more or less) the tune of the Te Deum composed in the 4th century and one of the most famous hymns in history. ¶ Appointed dean of the newly gingered-up Harvard Divinity School: the Rev. Douglas Horton, 63, Brooklyn-born, Princeton-educated ecumenical leader, who was until recently moderator of the International Congregational Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Merry Widow, the show is only spottily festive".' To prolong the journey from the psychoanalytic to the nuptial couch through three acts, the play has to detour, go in for vaudeville, toss dull cracks after bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors go to Donald Cook. No one so deftly conveys well-bred distaste or alarm-looking as though he has just noticed a dead horse under the sideboard, or is about to hear a child of six recite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...closest backers denied the buzzing rumor. Said one: "Personally, I don't think he's ever going to resign." As the showdown at Ward's annual meeting neared this week, Wolfson, who two months ago had been singing victory hymns, changed to a more modest tune. Instead of predicting a majority of the nine-director board, Wolfson, who admitted that he has already spent $500,000 in his proxy battle to win control, now said: "All I can say is I have four directors ... I hope to have the fifth and the sixth, but I actually have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wolfson Takes a Round | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...entries (all sent in anonymously), the judges picked Sinfonia Sacra, by Ramiro Cortés.* Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Conductor Mitropoulos played Cortés' work with the Philharmonic-Symphony. Its first movement (Kyrie) was a slightly stolid development of an oId Mexican tune in slow tempo; its second (Sanctus) was as reedy and antique sounding as a drafty baroque organ; its finale (Dies Irae), driven by busy motoric rhythms, included some fine furious flights of imagination and a paraphrase of an ancient Gregorian Dies Irae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Prize Ring | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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