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Jacques de Menasce: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Edmund Appia and the composer at the piano; Vanguard). Like Paganini and Liszt, Composer de Menasce writes his own showpieces. If not exactly a world-shaker, this one is able, sophisticated and full of pianistic beans...
...Western propaganda victories at the Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference in Berlin last week, a chilling scene was quietly enacted in Indo-China. On direct orders from President Eisenhower, some 250 U.S. Air Force technicians landed in Indo-China from U.S. air bases in Japan. They were the vanguard of a major U.S. effort to save Indo-China from going down to defeat - an evidence of the gravest crisis in U.S.-Asian policy since the out break of the war in Korea...
Last week, five years later almost to the day, 69 of Rumania's emigrant Jews returned to Haifa, reboarded a steamer and started back to Rumania. They were the vanguard of an exodus of 2,000. The number was comparatively small, but the fact of their leaving was disquieting...
...FACE OF TIME (366 pp.)-James T. Farrell-Vanguard...
Payoff. In 1945, Sir John bought up Triumph Motors with the idea of bringing out a low-priced sports car. To avoid expensive retooling, Triumph used Standard parts (e.g., Vanguard engine, Mayflower front suspension and rear axle...