Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of the six months abroad. The university charges only about $1,000-the amount it collects for a boarding semester at Stanford-for plane fare to Germany, board, room and tuition. Thoughtfully, Stanford officials made no provision for return flights to the U.S. Best evidence of Landgut Burg's success: the university is seriously considering a similar outpost in Florence, has in the back of its mind a Stanford-in-France and a Stanford-in-Mexico...
...John Lee Mahin. Ten months ago the team found a loose option on Harold Sinclair's Civil War novel, The Horse Soldiers, snapped it up for a token $1 (eventually they paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat fee plus 10% of the gross after the movie has earned back its production costs...
...entries ranged from Irving Berlin's "best wishes" and signature on an other wise white page (price: $500) to a fifth-of-a-page, rear-end view of Actress Shirley MacLaine...
...doubles match with everyone serving at the same time. But when two good professional pianists take time to master the exacting technique of playing together at the same keyboard, the result is often music-making of high order. Last week Manhattan audiences had a chance to hear the best four-hand team since the late, famed Josef Lhevinne played with his wife Rosina. Occasion: a concert at Carnegie Hall by young Viennese Pianists Joerg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda...
Grand Tradition. Pianists Demus, 30, and Badura-Skoda, 31, met at Vienna's Academy of Music, started playing together purely for relaxation. Although they have made half a dozen recordings together (for Westminster), they still regard their four-hand playing as "amateur in the best sense," prefer to concentrate on their individual careers as soloists. Badura-Skoda specializes in Mozart ("I have the quicker fingers"), while Demus concentrates more on Schumann and the French repertory...