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Lucas Marsh is the hero of Morton Thompson's vast, sprawling novel, Not as a Stranger, a book as fantastically sincere as its hero. When Novelist Thompson died last summer at 45, he had to his credit an intense, rough-edged novel about Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, the identifier of childbed fever (The Cry and the Covenant; TIME, Nov. 14, 1949). One thing Thompson had obviously wanted to be: a doctor. Failing that, he had desperately wanted to write well, especially about doctors and medicine. He never became a doctor, and he never became a top writer, but what...
...Brahms's famous Variations on a Theme by Haydn should perhaps be retitled to credit Haydn Student Ignaz Joseph Pleyel. Student Pleyel may have written the theme which Brahms used for his variations; it wasn't Haydn...
Whatever the original idea, the grace and contrapuntal vigor of the concertos have delighted musicians ever since. Some famous performances: Chopin, playing with Liszt and Ferdinand Hiller; Clara Wieck (later Schumann) with Felix Mendelssohn and Ignaz Moscheles...
...Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME...
...Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME...