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...velvet pillbox moved in Boston's Symphony Hall. There was something vastly appealing about the frail, hunched woman as she bent over the keyboard; her playing of Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 was filled with a rare kind of fire, poetry and sadness. Bucharest-born Pianist Clara Haskil, 61, was making her first U.S. appearance in 30 years, with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. When she finished, the hall reverberated to stamping feet and shouts of "Bravo!"' She was called back an un precedented five times...
...high jump brought the Olympic trials' greatest moment. Handsome, nervous Ernie Shelton of U.S.C. fouled out at 6 ft. 9½ in. and went off in tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete . . . I'm not an athlete!" Olympic Qualifiers Vern Wilson of Santa Clara (Calif.) Y.C. and little Phil Reavis of Villanova dropped out as the bar rose. Only 19-year-old Charley Dumas (rhymes with humus) of Compton Junior Collie was left...
Primal Color. In Memphis, Bookkeeper Clara Bell Olds cashed a $6,000 check for her boss, ran off with the money, explained after her arrest: "When they shoved all that long green through the cage, I just couldn't resist...
...will vote for me." In Richmond, Kefauver. who in the past has been photographed riding a pogo stick, eating raw meat and driving a horse and wagon, was snapped climbing through the ropes into a boxing ring. After a day with her candidate, California's Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Shirpser cracked: "When I got home that night I shook hands with my mother...
Laird and his wife Clara have three children: Mary Ella, 15, Elizabeth