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Studying the Catholics. Hungary's lean, taut Bishop Lajos Ordass (TIME, Aug. 19) opened the assembly with a speech in which he modestly spoke of himself in the third person: "He would like to say that when he was in bondage in the most literal sense of the word, Christ gave him royal freedom." In another exposed position on the firing line of faith is another delegate: spade-bearded Bishop Otto Dibelius, 77, head of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg, whose 5,000,000-member flock is mostly on the Red side of Germany, and who is currently...
Levister: Manhattan Monodrama (Debut LP). In this first collection of his short pieces, says youthful (30) Manhattan Composer Alonzo Levister, he was influenced by ''blues, Bartok, Bach and Baptist shouting," but the sound that comes out is clearly his own. The mood is wistful, the emotion wire-taut, the rhythms occasionally splintered. Most successful: Black Swan, a brooding, velvet-piled excursion into the mind and style of Trumpeter Miles Davis...
...could have soared higher but for a curious fact: its proper beginning seems uncomfortably wedged in its middle. Two of the three principals disappear in the midst of the story for half an hour of screen time. The curious result is a fast-paced adventure yarn laced around a taut interlude of high drama...
...move constantly, toughening his men by day-long forced marches and showing them every strategic rock, gully and tall tree. He won the good will of mountain peasants by spending hours in conversation with them, paying them in cold Cuban cash for food and help. He kept discipline taut, collected recruits a few at a time. By the time last week's campaign began, he had close to 400 seasoned men, most of them equipped with modern weapons. And though evacuated peasants jammed hospitals and army barracks in towns surrounding the mountains, upwards of 30,000 were left behind...
Died. Louise Schroeder, 70, mild-mannered spinster who gained international admiration as Berlin's Acting Lord Mayor (1947-48) during months of the taut, East-West political contest for the city, climaxed by the Russian blockade and the Allied airlift that broke it; of a heart attack; in Berlin...