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Almost from the time that Russian-born Schmil Kogan (alias Cohen, alias Carr, alias Lewis) arrived in Canada in 1924, the commission found, he was a professional Communist. After a stint on the prairies as a laborer, he showed up in Montreal as an organizer for the Young Communist League...
Some works he had restudied. Others, like Schubert's Ave Maria, which he played in at least 296 of 300 concerts for U.S. troops during the war, he put away again for a rest. And he had pulled out some new ones, like the Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Medtner works...
A week before Christmas, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson composed an open letter to Santa Claus (alias Billy Rose). All that Composer-Critic Thomson wanted in 1949 (from the hands of Producer Rose): "A really modern [medium-sized] operatic repertory theater ... a quality operation." As for...
One was Minnesota's 250-lb. Tackle Leo Nomellini, amateur boogie-woogie pianist and short-order cook who never played football in high school. Extremely fast for his weight, Leo was the star of the line that held Michigan's great offense to 22 yards net gain by...
Butler believed that he was by nature a painter, spent years turning out mediocre canvases and damning art critics who had never heard of the "great" artist (a 16th Century Fleming named Jean de Wespin, alias Giovanni Tabachetti). He composed minuets, gavottes and fugues in the manner of Germany'...