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After a brief recess, Judge Kaufman went back to the bench to sentence sullen Morton Sobell, because of his "lesser degree of implication," to 30 years. Next day, Judge Kaufman sentenced David Greenglass, the ex-Army sergeant who had fed atomic secrets to the Rosenbergs and whose testimony had convicted his sister and brother-in-law, to a milder 15 years because of his help to the Government...
...chief contact. In New York, Yakovlev directed the activities of Courier Harry Gold, in his pickups from Fuchs and from Alfred Dean Slack (now serving 15 years for espionage), who gave Gold a sample of a new explosive called RDX. The Rosenbergs apparently fed Yakovlev the data collected from Morton Sobell, who worked in radar and electronics, while Rosenberg himself stole the proximity fuse by the simple expedient of putting one in his briefcase at the Emerson Radio Corp...
...Morton Sobell, 33, college classmate of Rosenberg and an electronics research worker for the Government in World War II. He was the only one of the defendants to flee the U.S. (to Mexico) after the arrests of British Physicist Klaus Fuchs and Courier Harry Gold broke up the ring...
Thomson would have been on stronger ground in citing the absence of contemporary music. Community's 1,000 audiences did not see Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Schoenberg or Britten on any pianist's program. They heard the music of only three contemporary U.S. composers, Morton Gould, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson himself. Fourteen touring symphony orchestras served soothing programs made up mostly of Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Stravinsky cracked a few programs with his Firebird suite...
...Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord (Jelly Roll Morton; Circle; 12 LP sides issued, 12 to come). Jazz's genesis and exodus, told in seven hours of reminiscence, singing and solid piano-playing by one of its first prophets...