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In 1933 he marries Wanda, daughter of Arturo Toscanini. Father-and sonin-law perform together. Their concerts are sellouts, their records collectors' items. Money, fame, esteem-everything comes quickly to Horowitz-except English. At the White House, when he is presented to Mrs. Hoover, he bows and says, "I...
Spies who become famous usually find it fatal. Richard Sorge, the shadowy Soviet mastermind of one of the most daring and successful espionage rings in history, was no exception. Although Russia made him a Hero of the Soviet Union, named a Moscow street and a tanker in his honor, and...
Reporter Christopher Porterfield was the member of the team to whom Rubinstein got most accustomed. In just over three weeks, Porterfield went along to New York, Boston, Toronto, Washington, Durham (N.C.), Columbia (S.C.) and Cincinnati, questioning and listening in airplanes, taxis, concert halls and at cocktail parties. In Columbia, where...
When he strides onto a concert stage today, there is not a virtuoso living who can match his communion with the audience. "I love it like a woman," he says. His bearing becomes regal, his face is masked in concentration. His back erect, he kneads his fingers, bows his head...
If Italian designers have their way, women in daytime will regress to the nursery, at nighttime emerge as denizens of a seraglio. Thigh-high beach dresses were decorated with traffic signs, arid hiking costumes were just right for a tramp. Cocktail dresses were turned out looking like high-rise first...