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When he was twelve, he even made a speech before IBM's 100% Club of star salesmen. It was a "very good, short speech," his father happily recalls. For Tom Jr., his father set strict standards and never relaxed them. When Tom, an ardent boy scout, failed to make his Eagle badge, his father refused to send him on a gala seven-week trip to Europe, which he was financing for other Short Hills scouts...
...ardent amateur racing-car driver in his youth, he traveled much, lecturing and big-game hunting-a hobby that brought him to visit his friend, the Maharajah of Mysore. There, Denis Doyle, aged 43, died last week of a heart attack...
Captain Shih's story is part of an ardent, often eloquent answer given by Author Caldwell to those who say Formosa or the offshore islands are not really worth saving. The argument, in Caldwell's opinion, has overlooked the Captain Shihs of Asia, "the men and women who still have faith...
...flute and solo oboe of melting beauty, and its brasses played with a polished but slightly lethargic quality. Conductor von Karajan, lean and dapper, planted his feet firmly, took a stance with elbows bent as if carrying an invisible basket of flowers. His style was mannered-in his most ardent moments he bent stiffly from the waist and closed his eyes-and he gave the impression of overseeing the music rather than participating in it. When the score called for a punchy chord, his baton descended as if through a barrel of oil, and the orchestra hesitated a full second...
...tonal norm whereby the long forte passages could be saved from conveying an impression of bombast and anti-climax. On the other hand the faith in Schubert's lyricism, which undoubtedly underlay the performance, was not pushed so far as to infuse each phrase, and as a result even ardent Schubert lovers would find it hard to apply to this performance Schumann's epithet of "heavenly length...