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Liberace (pronounced Liber-ah-chee) is a piano player who dropped his given names because "Paderewski did not achieve worldwide fame until after he dropped his."* The trick took: at 33, Milwaukee-born Wladziu Valentino Liberace cannot give enough concerts to please all his fans, many of whom probably never heard of Paderewski. He has sold a phenomenal 250,000 albums of his records, appears on 100 TV stations (more than I Love Lucy), and by the testimony of his sponsors (mostly banks and biscuit companies) has directly accounted for "several million dollars worth of business...
...some minutes, then he dismissed his visitor. He would send for him, he said, when he had come to his decision. Several weeks passed and the young man heard nothing. Anxiously, he asked the rabbi again for a verdict. The rabbi sighed deeply and looked into his beard. "Ah, my son," he said, "in Europe I was never faced with such problems...
...dish, cazuela de pava (turkey casserole), quickly ran out. and the wineshop had to replenish its stocks three times. The two spinsters who own Coihueco's only telephone took to their beds with aspirin, while reporters endlessly cranked the phone's old-style bell magneto. Business boomed. "Ah, to have elections every month!" said the merchants...
...blond-tinted grey hair brushed to wavy perfection. When he began singing, the crowd knew for sure that he had not changed at all; his big voice had not lost a bit of its old boom, or, for that matter, its slight nasal tone. There was Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Rose Marie, I'll See You Again, At the Balalaika, Indian Love Call (with a pretty blonde, Gale Sherwood, dressed in an unlikely, scantie-type Indian costume). There was also, of course, the Eddy specialty, Short'nin' Bread. For this last song, Eddy...
...from the Greek pyropos, meaning burning face. Fashioning the piropo used to be one of the pleasantest professions of Latin America, and nowhere was it practiced more artistically than in Maracaibo, a city rich with oil and romance. A proper piropo, while flowery and fresh, was never offensive, e.g.: "Ah, to be the hand which powders that cheek!" But the worldwide lapse of good manners in the 20th century made the piropo bolder: "Say, baby, I'll be a citizen of your republic if you'll guarantee a direct vote...