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...Christmas Day Major George E. Preddy Jr., son of a freight conductor and top U.S. ace in the European Theater, was shot down by his own comrades. Shy, stocky George Preddy, P-51 fighter pilot, had 25½ enemy planes to his credit (plus five destroyed on the ground) when he climbed into the skies over Belgium that day and tangled with two German fighters. He knocked them both down and took off after a Focke-Wulf 190. U.S. troops on the ground opened up with ack-ack, trying to get the 190. Instead they shot down 25-year...
...Town is an enlargement in color of the sock ballet, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22) that Choreographer Jerome Robbins and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein did for the Ballet Theater. Here again are three young sailors footloose in Manhattan, only now one of them falls for the photograph of Miss Turnstiles, the subway's girl-of-the-month (Sono Osato), and the search for her becomes a breathless, round-the-town, round-the-clock jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park...
...Germans claimed they buzz-bombed Manchester last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), but they didn't hit John Barbirolli. Conductor Barbirolli and Manchester's famed Halle Orchestra had pulled a surprise maneuver. Despite military hell and the English Channel's high water, they were touring Belgium right under Hitler's nose. Britain's ENSA (roughly the British equivalent of the U.S.O.) considered the tour quite a triumph. It was the first time a British symphony orchestra had visited liberated Europe, and it was also probably the most strenuous trip in the peaceable annals of symphonic music...
They finally got to Brussels and put on a concert at the famed Palais des Beaux-Arts-whereupon Oboist Evelyn Rothwell (in private life Mrs. John Barbirolli) fell off the Beaux-Arts' modernistic stage and injured her arm so badly she couldn't play. Undaunted, Conductor Barbirolli led his forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week...
Christmas Hymns (victor Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor; 4 sides). Gifted Choral Conductor Shaw (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943) gives distinction as well as fervor to an anthology of oldtime choruses like Adeste Fideles and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. Recording: good...