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Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, a long time friend of the Williams family, said last night that he had been shocked to hear the news from Williams' father Thursday morning. "Lou was one of the most remarkably versatile, intelligent, wonderful human beings I've ever known," he added...
TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 6 ("PATHÉTIQUE") (Deutsche Grammophon). Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic do not reveal their dramatic intentions until the third movement. It develops from a brisk march into an inexorably advancing avalanche of sound that is eventually submerged in the ebbing, surging melodies of the finale...
Hitler's art collection is often plainly preposterous. Sharing the racks with Rubens are sexy sphinxes and snake-draped nude dancers of Max Klinger and Franz von Stuck, whose fancy for the Wagnerian concept of total art led them to stud their frames with marble, onyx and semiprecious lapidary and to incise their names in five-inch letters. Among nearly 2,000 lesser art works are monumental glorifications of the autobahns, tiers of titillating, bulky Brünnhildes in the buff, and pleasant vistas of Berchtesgaden. One canvas, called Judgment of Paris, shows three hefty maidens placidly awaiting...
Born. To Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 52, scholarly pretender to the Austrian throne until 1961, when he renounced his claim; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 39: their seventh child, second son; in Munich...
...former All-American goalie from Princeton, Barry von Gerbig, held the sputtering Crimson offense at bay with some spectacular work in the net, making 33 saves. Another former Princeton ace, John Cook, scored twice, once in the second period to tie the game and then, with minutes left in the last period, to put the game on ice with a desperation shot...