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Senator Edmund Muskie felt tired and ill. His replies on a television show were cold and argumentative, and one of his aides, Berl Bernhard, bluntly told Muskie that it was a bad performance. When Muskie publicly berated his staff for a bad press release, Bernhard protested firmly that such scoldings were not "particularly productive." The Senator scowled, then smiled. "Look, Nag," Muskie told Bernhard, "I'll stop knocking the staff if you'll stop telling the press I'm contentious and ill-tempered...
Last week Muskie selected Bernhard, 41, to direct his still unannounced presidential campaign. "There may be some people who feel they have to cushion me when there is unpleasant news, but they are wrong," says Muskie. "Berl doesn't cushion anything with me." A successful Washington lawyer both in and out of Government, Bernhard has a knack for employing humor to take the sting out of his stern judgments. "He will cut a guy's legs off if it has to be done," contends one close friend, "but he uses plenty of anaesthesia." Muskie prefers a woodsy Maine...
...Little Wary. By hitting the campaign trail so early-even if it began some 5,000 miles away in Jerusalem -Muskie also hopes to convince potential donors that it is not too early to place their money on him. Washington Lawyer Berl Bernhard quietly opened a campaign headquarters for Muskie nine months ago. So far, $250,000 has been raised, but one Muskie fund raiser estimates that another $1,500,000 will be needed even before the primary elections begin. It will not be easy to raise that sum. The men being solicited, notes an aide, are "all a little...
...recital, reported New York Times Music Critic Howard Taubman. was "admirable"-but it got Taubman sore. The artist: 32-year-old, Philadelphia-born Violinist Berl Senofsky. The locale: the Metropolitan Museum's small Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium (700 seats). Wrote Taubman next day: "There is something gravely wrong here. Berl Senofsky is an American violinist who beat all comers to win first prize in the Brussels 1955 competition, and he gets to play in New York as guest of the Metropolitan's Young Artists Series. Leonid Kogan, a Russian violinist [TIME, Jan. 27], who won the Brussels prize...
Last week the finalists gathered in the plush auditorium of the Palais des Beaux Arts under the careful scrutiny of 13 solemn-faced judges and the motherly gaze of Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, 78, patron of the Concours. Only one of five Americans, Philadelphia-born Berl Senofsky, 30, had survived the preliminaries ; all the Russians had made it. Senofsky, whose parents were born in the Ukraine, had studied at Juilliard, spent a hitch in the Army before becoming assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra five years ago. Dissatisfied with his progress, he quit his job, flew to Europe...