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Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, 185 votes; Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, 166; U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 75; New York City Mayor Robert Wagner, 47; Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 43; California's Governor Pat Brown, 37; Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, 28; Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, 24; Assistant Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 21; and Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington...
When Paul Hindemith wrote a parody of Tristan into an early opera, the offense to Wagner stirred up a resentment in his native Germany that lingered on for years. In the '30s, when his music had attained the clean, clear shape of neoclassicism, the Nazis banned it because of its antiRomantic ring. And after the war, when Hindemith returned to Europe after 13 years in the U.S., he was widely considered a walking anachronism by the new musical revolutionaries. In youth, he had been called "the playboy." In age, he was "the academician." In more than 40 prolific years...
Died. Gorgeous George, 48, who got nowhere in professional wrestling as plain George Wagner until he changed his name, did his peroxided hair in pageboys and upsweeps, after which wrestling fans gladly paid him $70,000 a year for ten peak years in the late 1940s and early '50s to see him take his lumps from the regular guys; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...interpreters have brought to his varied music all the resources of modern instrumentation-and all the scholarly weight of a new musicology that insists on a strictly paleontological presentation. One side, mainly distinguished by the presence of Eugene Ormandy, plays Bach with a flourish and sensuality better saved for Wagner; the other side, which at its extreme is manned by cliques of musical pedants who play in ensembles with names like Pro Arta Antarctica, believes Bach must never be played away from the harpsichord and organ. In the artistic center of the interpretive storm are a number of impeccably good...
Died. Michael Delia Rocca, 62, the Long Island shoemaker who answered The $64,000 Question on CBS-TV in 1956 (a 14-part question involving Wagner premières, Caruso's teachers and a 1908 performance of Aïda), was never involved in subsequent scandals, spent much of his prize bankrolling his hobby, amateur opera performances; of cancer; in Baldwin...