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When Gibbs and Gottfried got to Da-Phuc, outermost fort on the road from the north, they found a French captain commanding final construction work of defenses he had designed. Proud of his plan, the captain showed them how he had sunk the fort in the top of a knoll so that the fireports opened only six inches above the ground. Trenches connecting its four buried corner bastions were arched over with brickwork. The lightly armed soldiers figured that if the fort were overrun, they could continue fighting from the tunnels...
Verdi: Quartet in E Minor (the Paganini Quartet; Victor, 2 sides LP). Stuck in Naples, where he had gone to supervise a production of Aïda, Verdi, then 60, decided to "amuse myself" by composing a string quartet-his first and only one. After a private performance, he pronounced it merely a "pastime," refused to have it published. He was too hard on himself: though his quartet is not quite a masterpiece of its kind, its first movement particularly has Verdi's irresistible melodic appeal. Performance and recording: excellent...
LOUIS REPLIES TO DA GROSA...
Three Husbands (United Artists] stencils itself hopefully on 1949's successful A Letter to Three Wives. Based on a story by Novelist Vera Caspary, who worked on the plot for Three Wives, the picture gives three men (Howard da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Karnes) reason to suspect their wives (Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown) of infidelity, then sits back to watch them squirm...
...failed in Spain, says Garrison, not because "the Spanish mind is naturally, congenitally and incurably Catholic," but simply because the church-state's repression of non-Catholicism was so ruthless. How long would such a leader as Luther, he asks, "have lasted in the fires of an auto-da-fé at Seville? Or, even if he had been made of asbestos, what role would he ... have played in Ferdinand's program of national unification by compulsory religious solidarity...