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...annual convention at Strasbourg last week, France's Catholic, middle-of-the-road M.R.P. chose a new president. He was Georges Bidault, one of the party's founders and France's former Foreign Minister, who had won out over Pierre Henri Teitgen, gaunt ex-Minister of Justice, his rival for the party presidency. Bidault's election raised a big question: would he lead his party rightward from its present "Third Force" position into an alliance with Charles de Gaulle...
Munch's training for a musical career started almost from his birth. This event took place at Strasbourg in 1891 at a time when the Alsace was part of Germany. But, as Munch explains it, "true Alsatians have always remained French, as the country itself has remained a French province ..." His father, Ernest Munch, was organist at Strasbourg, professor at its Conservatory, and founder of the celebrated choir of St. Guillaume. The organist of that church at one time was Albert Schweitzer, author of the great work on Bach. He is a relative and close friend of Munch, and participated...
...musical education from his parents, but this was directed towards his becoming a violinist, not a conductor. It was not untill relatively late in life that he began to conduct. In 1919, Munch was appointed professor at the Conservatory and concertmaster of the Municipal Orchestra in his native city--Strasbourg. This orchestra is now conducted by his brother Fritz...
...playing their old game -trying to interfere, without being responsibly involved, in the Continent's destiny. Thinking Frenchmen understand Britain's hesitations. They realize that it is asking a lot of Britain to tie her recovering economy to France's, and to rate the defense of Strasbourg as important as the defense of Dover. Still, they believe that, in order to achieve European union, the British must take military and economic risks, i.e., gamble on the hope that the French will somehow pull through...
Take Popcorn. At 61, Arp himself is as sharp as his work is bland. Born in Strasbourg, he has lived largely in Switzerland, Germany and France, was visiting Manhattan for the first time last week. A cultivated and witty talker, he seized on a bowl of popcorn to illustrate his working methods to reporters. "I begin with something like this," he explained, delicately selecting a kernel and gazing at it through tortoise-shell glasses. "I see just what expression it takes and develop that. Now this little bump here looks like a branch. Turn it around and we have...