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Other notable new records: Debussy and Ravel Quartets, played by the Budapest String Quartet (Columbia); Deep River and other songs, sung by William Warfield (Columbia); Smetana's symphonic cycle, My Fatherland, played by the Chicago Symphony conducted by Rafael Kubelik (Mercury, 2 LPs); Twelve Spanish Dances by Granados, played by Pianist José Echániz (Westminster...
...member Chicago Symphony came next, for its first visit in 13 years. Its conductor, Rafael Kubelik, was in an awkward spot, since the Chicago is not renewing his contract (the Metropolitan Opera's Fritz Reiner will succeed him). But he picked an ambitious program, including Beethoven's Eroica and Modernist Bohuslav Martinu's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Kettledrums, and led his musicians in some expansive, grand-manner interpretations...
After playing a splashy role at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly (TIME, March 9), Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo went on last week to new triumphs which were certain to get big play in the press back home. Appearing at the White House with two armed bodyguards, he was ushered in to see President Eisenhower for ten minutes. Then he bustled over to the State Department and signed the now standard Mutual Military Assistance Agreement* with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a ceremony which lasted 3½ minutes. ("Well, that's all there...
...sinister figures who descend on Manhattan when the United Nations General Assembly convenes, the Soviet Union's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky usually attracts the most attention. But on opening day last week, Vishinsky had to yield the spotlight to a strong-jawed newcomer from the Caribbean: fabulous Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 61, who since 1930 has run the lush, green little Dominican Republic like a private plantation, piling up wealth by the tens of millions and crushing all opposition with iron ruthlessness. Trujillo had left his brother Héctor in charge at home and taken over...
Unpleasant Aftertaste. In San Rafael, Calif., William O. Weissich Sr. was awarded $500 by the court after testifying that, while he was smoking a cigar on a bus, the lady driver snatched it from his hand, ground it out on the steering wheel and left him "shocked, trembling, mortified and embarrassed...