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...Coolidge began a series of chamber music festivals in her newly finished Music Temple on South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this...
...critics may grumble about Eileen's dressy monkeyshines-but they also think that her playing is in Myra Hess's league. U.S. audiences have not yet seen Eileen's act, but millions of moviegoers have heard her (the excellent sound tracks of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 helped make The Seventh Veil and Brief Encounter two of the best British movies seen...
Nazi Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland on May 10, 1941. From that day until his trial at Nürnberg in the fall of 1946, Hess was quizzed, examined and speculated about by British and U.S. psychiatrists. Last week eight of them published their findings in The Case of Rudolf Hess (W .W. Norton...
...world where psychopathic men can so easily become leaders and where today they might by their own personal whims or decisions launch another war on the nations, it is for us a duty to study and comprehend the nature of such men." Anyway, they had the written permission of Hess, who is serving a life term as a war criminal...
...Hess, the doctors concluded, is probably a schizophrenic of a paranoid type (split personality with delusions of persecution). They note some warning signals: his "extremely primitive skull formation, the misshapen ears"; an attitude of simultaneous submission and antagonism to his father; an "unconscious passive homosexual disposition" and a feeling of guilt over masturbation during adolescence; a self-centered, shy, shut-in personality that craves devotion and spins fantasies of glory but is haunted by a sense of inadequacy and inner conflict...