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...system. When not digging among the Cuba-invasion ruins, Bobby Kennedy was at the White House, serving as the President's closest counselor. It was usually late in the afternoon before Bobby got to the Justice Department to carry out his tasks as Attorney General. Deputy Attorney General Byron ("Whizzer") White was wearily trying to take as much routine work as possible off Bobby's shoulders, but there were many decisions that only the boss could make, and he worked late night after night...
...domestic youth corps offering jobs for 36 University students has been organized and will have its first orientation meeting this week, according to Byron Stookey, Jr. '54, associate director of Advanced Standing...
...before a concert, Pianist Byron Janis calls the weather bureau. A forecast of rain depresses him, chiefly because it depresses the piano, robbing it of the brilliance and agility that are the hallmarks of Janis' style. On the other hand, dry, clear weather of the kind that prevailed the evening he played with the Boston Symphony in Carnegie Hall last week is just what Janis needs. With the temperature in the 405, the moon radiant and the barometer steady, Janis played with feeling and virtuoso flair through Liszt's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. His piano sound...
...Janis had to overcome that most irksome of musical burdens-a reputation as a prodigy. His Russian-born parents brought him up in Pittsburgh, where his father, who owned a sporting-goods store, went by the name of Yanks, a contraction of the name Yankilevitch. When he was five, Byron started to play a toy xylophone like an old hand, soon afterward was playing piano on the radio. At 13, Byron Yanks, who shortly became Byron Janis, left home for good to study with a succession of teachers, finally becoming the only pupil of Vladimir Horowitz. He made his debut...
Both he and Monro emphasized that the 50 applicants were a select, committed group. Byron Stookey, Jr. '54, a member of the Faculty committee working on the project, noted, "Obviously, if we have 50 to 75 very good applicants, that is more than we were able to handle in a first-year program...