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...combination," says Piatigorsky, rolling his sad, spaniel-brown eyes. "Sometimes when I come in with my cello in the little parts assigned to me, I am told to 'go over there in the corner and play.' It is not so good, really, as years ago when our butler, Dr. Wallisch, played the piano. He had once been a music critic in Vienna. With him, we were quite good sometimes...
...Magnetics Inc. was started in a Butler, (Pa.) garage in 1949 by Engineer Arthur O. Black, who had an idea for magnetic nickel-iron amplifiers to take over some vacuum-tube functions. The first year Black had seven customers, sales of $15,000. This year, with more than 800 customers clamoring for "magamps" for radar, sonar and computer systems, Magnetics Inc. employs 320 people, will see its sales soar to $5,000,000. Says Black: "It never crossed my mind that we'd fail, but I never expected this...
...Countess Cathleen is not only the first play written by William Butler Yeats, but also the first play of the great Irish Renaissance. It is fundamentally a charming peasant fable, embroidered with beautiful threads of words, and although it lacks the more open humor and the more dignified grandeur of much of Synge, or of the later Yeats plays, it obtains strength from its air of simplicity, from the purity of the mythical tale its tells...
...Eden, resigned from Neville Chamberlain's government in protest at British appeasement of Mussolini. When Suez and ill-health drove Eden from No. 10 Downing Street last winter, it was Salisbury, together with Sir Winston Churchill, who persuaded the Queen to name Macmillan Prime Minister instead of "Rab" Butler (who had once supported Chamberlain's appeasement...
Died. John Butler (Jack B.) Yeats, 85, younger brother of the late Poet William Butler Yeats and Ireland's leading painter, known for his canvases filled with tinkers, tavern loafers, pirates and circus performers idling about Dublin's streets; in Dublin...