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Their backgrounds are about what you would expect: almost half of them are the sons of professional men who were mainly clerics, professors, doctors, lawyers, journalists. One-fourth of their fathers were businessmen; the rest were farmers, auditors, a railroad conductor, etc. Their mothers (51% of them) were housewives, but the rest practiced a variety of occupations such as school teacher (14%), concert pianist, actress, periodical illustrator...
...Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed conductor of Berlin's Philharmonic Orchestra and Nazi-tainted Prussian State Councilor, was invited by Berlin's Soviet-sponsored mayor Arthur Werner to help direct the city's culture revival. Wrote the mayor: "German music. . . is trying . . .uncompromisingly [to realize] its genuine national value . . . Germany needs Furtwängler. . . ." The Russians benignly approved; U.S. authorities opposed the appointment...
...American Touch. Like few prelates, Spellman had a secular education in the public schools of Whitman, Mass. He delivered groceries, peddled papers, played baseball and was a trolley-car conductor at an age when most of the solemn little Italian boys who are now his contemporaries in the Church had already begun their education for the priesthood...
...Philharmonic's conductor, Austrian-born Erich Kleiber he sent a message in Spanish: "To save the sublime music of Beethoven, I request your cooperation as a colleague." Replied Kleiber: "In order to save the sublime music of Beethoven you need a good orchestra...
Santelmann has been a member of the band through three White House occupancies, became its conductor in 1940. During the Hoover Administration, the band played barn dances in the East Room. In the days of Calvin Coolidge, the Marines never appeared at the White House without Lord Geoffrey Amherst. In Franklin Roosevelt's day they always carried Home on the Range. Now they are never caught without Missouri Waltz. For the music-loving Harry Trumans they have lately been playing as often as five times a week. Said Santelmann happily: "White House entertaining is getting back to normal...