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...break back in 1925 that launched Vladimir Horowitz to stardom came the way every young pianist envisions it. As told by the pianist Abraham Chasins. Horowitz had spent the afternoon walking in the famous zoo in Hamburg, Germany, and returned back to his hotel in early evening when it began to snow. Near the entrance to his hotel he caught sight of the local concert manager who upon seeing Horowitz-started gesturing excitedly and informed the pianist that a woman pianist who was to play a concerto that night had fainted during a rehearsal and would be unable to play...
...Rabbi Abraham Foxbruner, Monday...
...fall of many," Bernie says, because "abortion is a denial of the Judeo-Christian emphasis of the Founding Fathers. They assumed that those who interpreted the law would be of this ethic. The Human Life Amendment will be the last great document of Western Civilization--like God speaking the Abraham, the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation...
...Abzug was hurt the most by the fact that there were two other well-known and certified liberals in the primary race: New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer and Ramsey Clark, Lyndon Johnson's Attorney General. (The fifth Democratic candidate was a political maverick named Abraham Hirschfeld, a parking-garage builder.) On election Clark got 93,000 votes and O'Dwyer 84,000; Moynihan ended up with only a 327,000 to 318,000 victory over Bella...
...barbecues. You shook every hand you could find, and it was all face to face. It's all changed now. You are talking to people sitting quietly in their living rooms. The atmosphere of the old public meeting is gone. You have to be attractive physically and look good. Abraham Lincoln wouldn't have been very successful...