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...others, by most critics, are held to be Ignaz Jan Paderewski and Sergei Rachmaninov. Contemporary estimates, ever dangerous, might have to make room for Alfred Cortot; and Vladimir de Pachmann, admitted master interpreter of Chopin, yet lives. Of these careers, while Composer- pianist Paderewski's has been the most phenomenal, many people recall when Josef Hofmann, aged 11, his feet barely touching the pedals, was the U. S. musical sensation of the day (1887). Compelled by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to withdraw, he studied under Anton Rubinstein, "lion with the velvet paw." His playing...
...priest, hurried last week into the great building which houses the Nationalrat (Parliament) in Vienna. As he passed through gloomy corridors only the sharp-eyed saw at this seeming-priest's throat the purple rabat of a monsignor. None the less all present bowed with respect to Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. He had just been created?for the second time;? Chancellor (Premier) of Austria. He is thus at present the sole Christian prelate to head a civil government...
Unique. Born 50 years ago in Vienna, young Ignaz Seipel became first a priest, and then a professor who mingled strangely political science with moral theology in such books as The Economic Teaching of the Fathers (1907). Later his writings upon statecraft in support of the Austro-Hungarian Empire won him the approval of the Habsburgs and during the World War, a cabinet post...
...hearty vote of thanks to Count Koudenhove-Kalergi for his industry in assembling such famed delegates as: Alexander Kerensky, Herr Paul Loebe (President of the German Reichstag), Chancellor Rudolf Ramek of Austria, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, onetime (1922-24) Chancellor of Austria...
...Vienna, Karl Jaworek faced judge and jury to answer for attempting the assassination of ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel (TIME, June 9). To the court was read a penitent letter from the accused to his victim. The minimum sentence is usually five years hard labor...