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...Piano from Mozart to Bartok (Beveridge Webster; Perspective). The house of Steinway's 100th anniversary this year gives a chance to lump a music-hall variety program (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Bartok) on one disk. Versatile Pianist Webster runs the gamut without stumbling and with considerable brilliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Crime Classics (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). "The Terrible Deed of Dr. Webster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...fine day some 40 years ago, pupils of the Webster School in Spokane, Wash, put on a musical show. The significance of the event was not appreciated at the time, and the part of the show in which a number of children dressed like blocks came out onstage to jump up & down got only moderate applause. Nobody particularly cared that one of those blocks was named Harry Lillis Crosby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bathroom Baritone Inc. | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Aloha, Webster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...Shook the hand of plump Elizabeth Hess, 13, the national spelling champion, and confessed that, as a small boy he had been spelled down on "syzygy." The President further obliged Elizabeth with a definition: "Having to do with the orbit of the moon" (pretty close to Webster's "The point of an orbit, as of the moon, at which the planet is in conjunction or opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Promise Fulfilled | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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