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TIME'S report [April 21] of Van Cliburn's excellence in the Tchaikovsky international music festival was most sympathetic. A bouquet of gorgeous Texas roses should go to his mother-his only teacher prior to his going to Juilliard...
...Russians started sizzling when he appeared in the preliminary auditions-and never let up. Wooed by official Russia and by musicians, he was also pursued by adoring teenagers. Total strangers, men and women, hugged and kissed him in the street, flooded him with gifts, fan mail, flowers (one bouquet came from Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev). Women cried openly at his concerts; in Leningrad, where fans queued up for three days and nights to buy tickets, one fell out of her seat in a faint. When Moscow TV scheduled only the first half of Van's prizewinning performance, the advance protest...
...bags (Shirl: "I promise to lose"), "famous carpets from the looms of Mohawk," a poodle from a "famed" Peekskill kennel, then Keenan Wynn in a scene from Wagon Train. "Do I turn my back on the camera?" asked Actress Shirl incredulously as she mounted the "staircase" to toss her bouquet. It was caught by a boy. Bride and Groom is going off the air this week...
...dinner party (menu undisclosed), saw a movie (title undisclosed), had a few folks in (names undisclosed) and exchanged some gifts. This was enough to give London's gossipists a field day. They variously reported that Philip gave the Queen a piece of jewelry designed by himself, a big bouquet of white carnations, a gleaming electric kettle that puckishly seemed to combine a private joke with their "tin" anniversary. Parlaying the secrecy, London's Sunday Express knowingly surmised that the royal family was shocked and dismayed when Princess Margaret skipped out for a theater party, failed to appear...
...view with regret the statement by some gentlemen from our neighbor school to the south who say that perhaps the Game today is not all that it is reputed to be. The prefer, they say, the cleaner, more temperate quality of the Princeton game to the duller more liquid bouquet of the Contest with the Crimson...