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...three new labels, Seraphim ("Angels of the highest order") has the brightest roster of musicians, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Philips' World Series has less prominent but still lustrous names (Clara Haskil, Marcel Dupré) and an equally broad selection of works. Epic's Crossroads, the only one of the trio with all recent, all truly stereophonic recordings, has culled its list from that of the Czechoslovak firm Supraphon and thus gives voice to the Czech Philharmonic, the Smetana Quartet, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Some jewels in new settings...
...that much to Francis. Raised in a Manhattan orphanage with nary a clue to the identity of his parents, he has developed a delusion that he is the unacknowledged child of a British peer, entitled to the Order of the Garter, or perhaps even the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm and Queen Mary...
Married. Prince Michael of Prussia. 26, great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II; and Jutta Joren, 24. a secretary he met in Manhattan while training as a Pan American Airways sales representative; in a civil ceremony in Dusseldorf, to be followed this week by a Lutheran ceremony at the Hohenzollern family estates near Bremen...
...tribute to their countryman, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on December 29. In honor of the anniversary, this year's festival has one of the most stellar lineups in its history. Violinists Alexander Schneider and David Oistrakh returned after several years' absence; Pianists Rudolf Serkin, Wilhelm Kempff and Julius Katchen took leave from crowded schedules to perform. It was a sentimental journey tinged with apprehension. "When a musician is almost 90," explained Katchen, "one may legitimately worry about how he is going to play...
...leaders who actually stood trial, eleven were sentenced to hang, seven received prison sentences, three were acquitted. Condemned to death, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring committed suicide by poison in his prison cell. Ten Nazis-including Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Armed Forces Chief Wilhelm Keitel, and General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief military adviser-died on the gallows...