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...concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which he himself inaugurated and directs, and Bath in England...
...success of his festivals comes from Menuhin's determined attempts to keep them from succeeding in any conventional sense. Performers are scantily paid, audiences are limited, and the programs are the rarest of musical fare. They are holidays for strings. He regards the meeting of musicians at Bath and Gstaad as "private festivals for Yehudi and friends, with the public tolerated-it's very much a family affair...
...with any associations flagwise purely coincidental and absolutely not intended. The colors are red, white and blue, all right, but Betsy Ross didn't patent the scheme. And, most important, the stars and stripes never appear together at the same time on the same sheet, pillowcase or reversible bath towel (stars or stripes, never both, border the sheets, mix or match with towels and pillowcases in overall prints of either pattern). As a final disclaimer, the sheet and pillowcase stripes are slanted. Price: $3.99 a single sheet, $1.39 a pillowcase, $2.99 a towel...
...luxury hotels run kosher kitchens, but otherwise the halacha (Jewish law) is loosely observed. The Deborah, on the other hand, 1 run so religiously that one rival innkeeper calls it "a synagogue with bedrooms." Besides separate kitchens and dining rooms for meat and dairy dishes, there is a purifying bath, or mikveh, in which men immerse themselves before holidays and Sabbaths, and women after menstruation and childbirth. A staff rab bi conducts services at the hotel's own synagogue three times a day, and the chief work of hairdressers at the Debo rah's beauty salon is setting...
...imitation of Disneyland, lost $5.4 million. Place Ville Marie, a skyscraper show place in Montreal, lost another $4.5 million, and Webb & Knapp (Canada) no longer controls it. New York's Roosevelt Field, a large shopping center and industrial park, lost $1.2 million. Zeckendorf also took a $4.5 million bath in his Manhattan hotels...