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TIME'S Publisher Bernhard Auer was in India last week. It was something of an old home week, for Auer as an Army counterintelligence officer lived for two years during World War II in Delhi's Cecil Hotel, which he was saddened to learn has now been turned into a boys' school. Back on familiar ground, he looked up old friends, poked nostalgically about in Delhi's teeming streets and alleys, took his wife to Agra to see that uxorious monument, the Taj Mahal. Publisher Auer is on a round-the-world trip...
Arriving in Japan, Auer called on two recent cover subjects, Ambassador Edwin Reischauer and Industrialist Konosuke Matsushita. Now experiencing what other cover subject have gone through, Matsushita joked that "for the next month I'll set aside five minutes a day to sign TIME covers." Auer visited Matsushita's new TV factory in Osaka, gave him the original coyer painting. Matsushita, bowing appreciatively, wondered whether the portrait made him look younger or older than he really is. Auer decided the moment called for Occidental inscrutability...
Japan's prosperity and its emphasis on quality production pleased Auer, but he was troubled by Japan's lack of political concern about the rest of the world, even about such Asian crises as Laos and Viet Nam. In Formosa, Auer found most government officials still talking of the return to the mainland, but businessmen less so. Touring rural areas to study Formosa's land reform...
...Auer thought "a good job had been done raising living standards, although they may be false standards to the extent that they rely heavily on massive U.S. aid.'' He also called on those familiar TIME cover faces, Generalissimo and Madame Chiang. He found the generalissimo fit, energetic and gracious, and eager to hear about the fluctuations of U.N. sentiment on Red China...
NATHAN MILSTEIN, 57. another native of Odessa, was a student of famed Hungarian-born Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where, recalls Milstein, the young Heifetz was already established as "the Prince of Wales of fiddlers." A post-conservatory concert success in Russia, Milstein left for Paris in 1925, gave concerts with an old Russian friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. It was not until after World War II, when he married and settled down in Manhattan, that he began to build a reputation as something more than an extraordinarily gifted virtuoso. Milstein is still a master of the bravura composers...