Word: willem
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Among the mosquito capitals of the world, the salt marshes of New Jersey, home of the "swamp eagle," still holds its own. Last week many a newborn Jersey swamp eagle had its first taste of human blood. The donor: Dr. Willem Rudolfs, New Jersey agricultural experiment station researcher...
...Manhattan definite announcement confirmed recent rumor: Conductor Willem Mengelberg will not return next season to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, Jan. 27). In London last week it became known that he had been engaged to conduct the London Symphony in 60 concerts, an ambitious orchestral season for Britishers, inspired by the recent visits of the Berlin and Vienna orchestras under Wilhelm Furtwangler, another onetime New York Philharmonic conductor...
...calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers as Will Durant (Story of Philosophy}, Lewis Browne (This Believing World), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (The Story of Mankind), Critic Notch has less than no admiration; calls their books "an assault upon the world's cultural values...
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $10) ?Tchaikovsky dedicated this symphony to Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, the wealthy widow of a railroad engineer, who for years supported him without ever meeting him. Conductor Mengelberg's touch is deft and powerful, far transcends any of his recent performances with Man- Manhattan's Philharmonic...
When informed that her husband had been recaptured under these circumstances, Mrs. Willem professed devotion, said she would try to get him released...