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...lovers to hear and compare the styles of several virtuosos-Arrau, Backhaus, Brailowsky, Casadesus, Janis and Kempff-in a single benefit concert for the U.N. Commission for World Refugees. The program hitches together the warhorses of the piano repertory, but they are played with freshness and excitement. Standouts are Wilhelm Backhaus' definitive "Moonlight" Sonata, Byron Janis' unabashedly grand performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, and Wilhelm Kempff's crystalline playing of Schubert's Impromptu in G Major...
...Bleeding Ulcer. The Macedonian campaign, which started as a seemingly minor ulcer, ultimately bled Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany to death. But, speculates Author Palmer, "if the breakthrough was possible in 1918, would not a determined offensive earlier in the war have had the same result?" And if it had, how many fewer Allied and German soldiers would lie buried beneath the red poppies of Flanders' fields...
...pulled the trigger as well as the man who gave the order to fire is guilty." But he steered clear of broader questions of political or moral guilt, insisting on evidence of "concrete murder, precisely proved." Even so, there was evidence enough to sentence six men, including Wilhelm Boger, 59, the "Butcher of Auschwitz" (TIME, Jan. 17, 1964), to West Germany's maximum penalty: life imprisonment. To eleven more defendants went sentences ranging from 39 months to 14 years for complicity in the mass murders. Only three of the defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence...
...Your story on Rockefeller's Hawaii hotel contains an error. Mauna Kea is not the tallest island mountain in the world. Mounts Idenburg, Wilhelmina, Juliana and Wilhelm in New Guinea are all higher, and Idenburg is the highest...
...defied parental opposition and fled his native Rumania to study music in Paris and later, during the war years, at the University of Berlin. At the end of the war he took over the Berlin Philharmonic, rebuilt it singlehanded into an orchestra of international rank. In 1952, when Wilhelm Furtwangler was denazified and reinstated as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Celibidache drifted off to-pursue his lone-wolf existence...