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...Cuernavaca, Mexico, Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Mutton, 38, filed papers to divorce husband No. 4, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. The prince hired a San Francisco lawyer to fight the case...
...kept small (ideal: no more than 30 students). To keep classes small, Stoddard more than doubled the faculty, and brought in some top men while he was about it. Among them: Physicist Louis Ridenour of the University of Pennsylvania, Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy of Northwestern, Pianist Soulima (son of Igor) Stravinsky. Stoddard set up a new department of preventive medicine and public health, an institute, of public affairs and an institute of labor and industrial relations...
...feature work of the concert was Igor Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," written to the Latin verse of Jean Cocteau. The Glee Club made it appropriately the most impressive event of the evening. "Oedipus" is dominated by strong dramatic tension created by the jarring chords of the piano, the roll of the kettledrums, and the vocal crescendos of the chorus...
Currently in Rome as a composer in residence at the American Academy, Copland will succeed playwright Thornton Wilder in the post. Two other composers, Paul Hindemith and Igor Strvinsky have held the position in recent years...
...there was evidence that here & there, though with only debatable degrees of success, creative men in the Christian world have been turning to the old challenge and the old theme. Among them, in literature, have been Novelist Graham Greene and Poet T. S. Eliot. In music, such composers as Igor Stravinsky and Francis Poulenc (TIME, Nov. 27) have attempted the awesome task of setting the Mass to modern music. In painting, the record shows outcroppings of the same deep impulse...