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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born shortly before the outbreak of World War I in Frankfurt am Main. The place was accidental. My father was an opera singer and happened to have a contract with the Frankfurt Opera at the time. He was Hungarian; my mother was Viennese. My father died by accident four weeks before I was born. My mother lived henceforth with her two sisters, who were actresses and very beautiful...
Falling in all this, racketmen can only contract an acquaintance with someone possessed of his own car and membership in a local country club. The new courts which the University is building will not be ready before the summer term...
...makes them sound almost Classical to ears accustomed to the rather hyper-poetical treatment of many better known pianists, such as his former teacher. On the other hand, his beautiful feeling for the earlier composers. Bach, Scarlatti, and Mozart--has been widely and justifiably acclaimed. He is already under contract to Columbia to record the complete works of Chopin. Also in the arduous process of reputation building is the Italian Arturo Benedetti-Michaclangelo. Although well beneath the level of Lipatti, he is a fine pianist...
Sandhogs-the tough, clannish men who burrow tunnels and subways under rivers and streets-don't startle easily. But a contract awarded in Baltimore last week startled them. What made them blink was the name of the successful bidder: Sam Rosoff, the world's No. 1 subway builder. The job, digging a $9 million, seven-mile-long water tunnel under Baltimore, will be Rosoff's first important contract within the U.S. since 1939. Sandhogs had thought that "Subway Sam" had finished with digging...
British Satirist Evelyn Waugh, who went to Hollywood on an eiderdown dream mission, departed for home after seven weeks of good living. By contract, M-G-M had maintained him in luxurious style while they talked about filming his Brideshead Revisited. But the censors wanted to change a script that Waugh liked. So it was no go. He didn't want changes. He really wasn't "keen" now to sell the book to any studio, said...