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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richter-Haaser's big-time career at the piano began at a time when many a lesser pianist is already beginning to fade from sight. The son of a carpenter (and amateur musician), he studied piano at the Dresden Music School, at 18 started to play concerts all over Germany. A decade later World War II interrupted his career. Assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he did not touch a piano for seven years, except to play in U.S. military hospitals as a P.W. at war's end. When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after...
...Big Payoff. Meanwhile, other former contestants began to sing. Manhattan Adman Arthur Cohn Jr. recalled his appearance on The $64,000 Challenge. At a warmup, said Cohn, his opponent came out of a private session with Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein (sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein), positively popping with both questions and answers. Disgusted with what he was convinced was a fraud, Cohn took his beating, complained to the show's sponsor (Revlon), and insisted that his $250 consolation prize be donated to charity...
...block with power, is at his best under pressure: "Man, I don't like to get beat." Summed up L.S.U.'s Tackle Bo Strange: "When you need it, that animal is there. Cannon won't get 100 touchdowns against Podunk. But he'll get the big one against someone like Ole Miss...
...Northwestern (6-0)-warmed up for this week's big Big Ten game with Wisconsin by crushing Indiana...
...extraordinarily good, considering the fantastic difficulty of getting them at all. To laymen, the moon's far side, long populated by storytellers with strange beasts and weird civilizations, looks disappointingly like its visible side. But astronomers find it surprisingly different. They point to the comparative lack of the big, roundish, dark "seas" that are so common on its known face. The area newly pictured shows only one really big sea, which the Russians named the Sea of Dreams. A smaller sea they named the Sea of Moscow, and to several craters they gave the names of Communist or Russian...