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Frau Koch's husband, the former commander of Buchenwald, was long since executed in one of his own butcher chambers for mishandling Nazi party funds. For the last two years his widow has been kept in closely guarded U.S. Army prisons. Despite this, she was eight months pregnant.
Old Writing, New Writing. The last part of American Memoir deals with the quarter century of Canby's experience in literary Manhattan, beginning in 1920 when Canby was editor of a Saturday supplement to the old New York Evening Post (later the Saturday Re-view). The author's...
Strenuous Rest. At the fashionable Waldhaus in Sils, Switzerland, Conductor Klemperer was not very communicative about his wrestlings with the Einem score. He showed up in the hotel lobby in bright green corduroy shorts, white sleeveless shirt, his thin white legs encased in striped silk socks. Yes, he felt he...
Most of the attendant scholars were already familiar with some of the 18,350 pieces of personal and official mail, manuscript and memoranda. Much of the material has been referred to and quoted in the works of Lincoln's two secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Later it...
The price (a well-guarded secret) looked adequate to Coward. The series of 13 transcriptions, each a half-hour in length, features nothing but Noel. Writing, song selection, announcing, and some of the singing are all his. Orchestrations and the trickier songs are left to hand-picked members of the...