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...greatest liturgical composer who ever lived and one of the musical wonders of the ages was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose lacy counterpoint was the pride of the Vatican under Pope Sixtus V (1585-90). The best U.S. interpreter of Palestrina is an Irish-American named Father William J. Finn, former choirmaster of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, who has behind him nearly 50 years of high musical achievement...
Last week Father Finn published a book (The Conductor Raises His Baton; Harper's, $3.75). Extremely technical and written in a style of truly Celtic luxuriance, it is almost completely incomprehensible to laymen. But it is a required volume for students of sacred music and a fitting capstone to a distinguished musical career...
...Sawyer!" Thousands of eager-eyed, freckle-faced American boys have marveled at the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as they captured enemy galleons, rescued beautiful princesses, and fought against Captain Kidd's pirates in the muddy waters of the Mississippi. From the life story of Mark Twain, author of these juvenile classics, Warner Brothers has made a faithful biographical movie...
MacCallister is pictured as a modern Huck Finn who doesn't take much to schoolin' but who likes horses. After being humiliated by his Shirley Temple counterpart, he proves his worth as a trotting jockey and wins cups, laurels, and a kiss...
...Readers Basilico, Jaffe, et al. never hear, then, of the great Finn MacCool (TIME, Nov. 1) ? He was well known to have lepped the width of Ireland (115 Sassenach miles) in three jumps, and could outrun a hare or a stag itself, and he merely moving his legs gently, the way he'd be restoring his circulation...