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Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
...Leventritt Award. His performance of Brahms's Concerto No. 2, a work laced with tranquil melodies and fiery passages, brought the audience to its feet for five minutes of applause. But the judges did not give the award to Block or anyone else. Leonard Bernstein, speaking for the judges, pointed out that contestants for the Leventritt do not compete against one another, but against a standard. Not even Block, he said, had measured up to the standard set by such previous winners as Van Cliburn, Malcolm Frager and Gary Graffman...
Then Block took charge at the piano, and with Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto prompted Serkin and Bernstein, Mannes and Graffman and Szell and Firkusny to exchange pleased glances. "Let's hear Beethoven's Opus 27 in E-flat," asked Leopold Mannes from the balcony. Block then eased his way into the Beethoven sonata fantasy with a keen intelligence that paid heed not only to detail but also to essential unity. Displaying versatility as well as virtuosity, Block played a cadenza from a Tchaikovsky concerto and a Liszt sonata. Chattering excitedly, the judges reached a verdict...
...Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Bernstein, George Szell, Rudolf Firkusny, Leopold Mannes, Nadia Reisenberg, Gary Graffman, Claude Frank, Gitta Gradova and Theodore Bloomfield...
Morse greeted the new pitcher, Ryan, with a sharp single, which could have scored two runs but for the unexpectedly good throwing arm of center fielder Ed Brady, who threw out Bartolet at the plate. Bernstein made up for the lose by singling Morse home, however...