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After hearing Anton Webern's Five Pieces for String Quartet at Kirkland House on Tuesday, I had a hard time understanding why Vienna was scandalized when it first heard this work in 1913. For these five short movements have a delicate and economic intensity, and when played by Robert Koff and John Austin, violins, Carey McIntosh, viola, and Lawrence Lesser, 'cello, they moved the large audience by their probing, occasionally erupting introspection...
Illinois. Handsomely greying Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, whose father was once a popular state attorney general, is married to the daughter of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Roosevelt). Kerner has an impressive six-year record of his own as a reform-minded Cook County (Chicago) judge who helped revamp local judicial procedures, led a successful fight to modernize state election statutes. His key campaign promises: more aid for schools, hospitals and depressed areas downstate...
Wisconsin. One of the disappointed hopefuls in the vice-presidential bingo game at the Democratic Convention, Governor Gaylord Anton Nelson, 44, may still look forward to a political future beyond the shores of Lake Michigan. A smooth public speaker (and a smoother raconteur in informal moments), the darling of organized labor and an unabashed liberal, he brought a program of sweeping social reforms and a crew-cut crew of intellectuals to Madison in 1958, will give Wisconsin a second chorus of the same music in his second term...
...most part the effect was spare and angular-a little like the small-toned, pointillistic compositions of Anton von Webern...
...clerks stood silently while Chairman Edward C. Werle made an unhappy announcement. For the first time in 22 years the exchange, one of the nation's most exclusive clubs, was expelling a member for "fraudulent acts which endangered a member firm's financial position." The offender: Anton E. Homsey, 53, one of two partners in the Boston firm of DuPont, Homsey & Co. His offense was pledging an estimated $503,000 in securities belonging to three customers as collateral for loans without the customers' knowledge. The exchange's last such case was in 1938, when Richard Whitney...