Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowing that you know of a situation for a boy; and being desirous of obtaining one," the letter read, "I will with your permission apply for it. I would like to get a position where I would have a good chance of advancement." Last week, 75 years after he was hired as an office boy (salary: $4 a week), spry Frederick Hudson Ecker, 90, honorary board chairman of the giant ($80 billion in insurance) Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., sat through a dinner in his honor, reminisced to his audience about the company's great past. President for seven years...
More About Everything. When some of his students refused to be roused, Ergil announced that he would wrestle any boy who did not turn in homework. Half a dozen or so of the huskier kids took him up. The slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 145 Ibs.) teacher marched them to the gym, convinced them in successive falls of the importance of hard study. Ergil's qualifications for teaching, it turned out, included wrestling for his alma mater, the University of Istanbul. Other qualifications of Liberal Artist Ergil, now a U.S. citizen: two years of pre-med training, three...
...Russia for over a century." The pianist who has been evoking that sort of reception for a month from Riga to Kiev is a far cry from the saturnine dandy with the "Florentine profile." Van Cliburn is a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 165 Ibs.), snub-nosed, mop-haired boy out of Kilgore, as Texan as pecan pie. Instead of medals, he carried a well-thumbed Bible; instead of doeskin gloves, a single dress shirt, a plastic wing collar given to him by a friend, a ratty grey Shetland sweater that often showed under his dress jacket when he took...
...music, the Texas longhair is a maverick who conforms to nobody's image of a virtuoso. His family has been American on both sides for at least four generations. His pale baby face, with its cornflower-blue eyes beneath a tangle of yellow hair, might suggest a choir boy-which he has been. He is exuberantly gregarious, unsophisticated and, on the surface at least, totally untempera-mental. Former Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson recalls that once, in an orchestral tutti during the rehearsal of a concerto, Van rose from the keyboard and walked out. "I called a halt...
Repeatedly, the Russians' adulation moved Van to unashamed weeping. After an eight-year-old boy came forward after a concert in Riga and shyly presented a photo of himself, Van took it back to the hotel, felt so touched on looking at it again that he broke down and cried. After his final audition for the competition, he burst into tears when a friend repeated to him Soviet Pianist Richter's statement that "his playing excites and moves me as only very few of the greatest have been able to." Later, at a Richter recital, Van sobbed...