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Journey's End. In Langhorne, Pa., Vincent J. Amanna looked and looked, at long last found a house for rent, dropped dead...
...Lyons anecdote last week involved Poet Stephen Vincent Benet "at Cafe Society last night." Lyons got it straight later; Benet has been dead three years...
...Vincent d'lndy: Istar, Symphonic Variations (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 3 sides). A strip tease on records. The theme of the score comes only after seven variations have been played, to indicate that the Babylonian maid, Istar, has just thrown off her final veil. Performance: lush...
Leland Stowe, Raymond Clapper and Vincent Sheean found more comfortable quarters in town, but they had to stop at the hostel to learn what was going on, and to clear and file their dispatches. There was no such thing as a scoop; all the news came out of press conferences and censorship was drum-tight...
...first time, John Brown's Body was broadcast in England last week. The dramatization of Stephen Vincent Benét's Pulitzer-prize poem filled an hour and a half over the BBC, but it was worth it. Britons heard an eloquent adaptation by an American: Joel O'Brien, former assistant to Norman Corwin. In the background was a remarkable musical score by 24-year-old British Composer Arthur Oldham. Even his original Negro spirituals, set to Benét's words and inspired by listening to Hall Johnson records, sounded authentic. To Britons...