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...friends, both early prodigies, are widely different in their approach to music. Heifetz, blessed with the most superb natural dexterity that any violinist ever had, is almost negligently casual about his talent; at his first appearance as a soloist with a symphony at the age of eight, he fell asleep in a chair while waiting to go on. With success he acquired a taste for high life and a distaste for practice. It never seemed to make any difference in his playing. After one hectic binge, he went on to a performance in London's Queens Hall that forced...
...down to the last bottle cap and bread crumb. When the tour is over, he should find a nearly bare studio in Manhattan, since he asked a friend to throw out all the silk screens he made before leaving. "Art shouldn't be a pillow you can fall asleep on," says Rauschenberg, who makes art out of pillows. From the looks of things, it is doubtful he will be caught napping...
...Dodd, an old friend of the President's (he had backed him for the top spot in '60), was there partly to maintain the suspense over the vice-presidency and partly to get some visibility for his own campaign for reelection. In the car, Humphrey was sound asleep. Lyndon grabbed Humphrey's arm, shook him and said, "Wake up, Hubert." The three went into the White House, where Lyndon first held a private talk with Dodd, then with Humphrey...
...prisoner was not asleep. Ten minutes later, onetime Bookmaker Charles F. Wilson, 32, was free and away, leaving behind 29 years and eight months of a 30-year sentence. He was one of the twelve men jailed for the greatest cash theft of all time, the $7,369,000 robbery of a mail train a year ago. The Great Train Robbery was followed fittingly last week by the Great Jail Break, for it had all the qualities of the robbery-good intelligence work, the right equipment, a daring team to do the job, and a superb plan...
Luigi Pirandello's A Dream (Yet Perhaps Not) is a very strange play indeed. The scene opens on a woman asleep on a couch, with her lover standing over her. The strange light tells us she is dreaming. In a sequence of short scenes, we see the history of her liason with the man. Finally she wakes, her lover arrives, and they play a short scene together. I do not think the play really works, for no present-day audience is prepared for the stopped action, odd lighting effects, or the projection of a movie on the cyclorama that Pirandello...