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...Victor released the second two LP volumes of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, played with unbeatable fire and insight by the late great Artur Schnabel. London completed its own releases of the same series by 70-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus, as well as all seven Symphonies by British Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Columbia packaged most of the Orchestral Music of Brahms (four records), lovingly played by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter, and all the Beethoven Cello Sonatas (three records), masterfully played by Pablo Casals and Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
Thurmond, as did most of the state's newspapers. The kiss of death for Brown came when Harry Vaughan told a Washington newspaperman that Harry Truman was for Brown because of Thurmond's 1948 disloyalty to the party (TIME, Nov. i). The vote: Thurmond 139,106, Brown 80,956. After the count, Senator-elect Thurmond renewed a promise: he will resign in 1956 to meet all comers in a proper primary...
Interviewed by a Washington correspondent for several Carolina papers, he unwound with an attack on old Dixiecrat Thurmond, called him in the "same class with Henry Wallace." Truman, said Vaughan, "can forgive small things like rape and murder, but he can't forgive a guy that goes back on his party." Why was Truman for Brown? Said Vaughan: "You'd be absolutely safe in saying the decision . . . was made 100% on party regularity." Even more damaging to Brown's chances was Vaughan's comment that "civil rights and nonsegregation are as inevitable as the tides...
...Vaughan, apparently awakening to the stir he had caused, denied that he ever gave the interview.* Said worried Edgar Brown: "Misleading, untrue, vicious and a clear attempt to prejudice some South Carolina voters against me." At week's end Governor Jimmy Byrnes called a press conference to endorse Thurmond. Byrnes is the most powerful politician in South Carolina, and his words, coming on top of the lethal Vaughan story, might well swing the election...
...Vaughan earlier had made another denial. He said that Truman had not delivered his famed snub to Thurmond during the 1949 inaugural parade. According to Vaughan, just as Thurmond's car approached the presidential reviewing stand, "Tallulah Bankhead came out with a terrific 'Boo!'" Said Vaughan: "She was behind the dignified Supreme Court with their silk hats, and she just about blew their hats off ... That was why [Truman] turned his head when Strom was coming past." Asked for comment last week, Miss Bankhead drawled: "Who's Harry Vaughan...