Word: culbertson
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...audience grew dreamy over Sasha's singing, sensuous delivery of the Franck sonata. More cold-blooded listeners felt that here Culbertson lacked clarity, tended to lose himself in lyric effects. As always he did best with Bach, made every variation in the Chaconne marvelously clear and incisive. Sensing that Sasha Culbertson was nervous over his second debut, critics deferred judgment. Friends of Violinist Culbertson were not surprised at his nervousness. Sasha has always been as retiring as his bridge- playing brother, Ely Culbertson, is bold. Though both Culbertsons were born in Eastern Europe, they are Sons of the American...
...dark little man with a Russian face and an American name began to fiddle his way into the big money. Critics on two continents praised young Alexander ("Sasha") Culbertson for his silky tones, liked him best in Bach. But Sasha was not satisfied with himself. In 1926 he canceled 31 U. S. engagements, broke a contract to make phonograph records, sailed for Europe. In Paris he settled down with his bride of two years to study all over again. There and in Berlin he worked hard, eked out a meager living from music lessons. Last week he walked timidly onto...
Just before dawn broke over the Caribbean, Captain Wallace Culbertson gunned his four motors for the takeoff. Skimming along at 50 m. p. h. he spied a small launch directly in his path. Although he swerved, a wing pontoon grazed the launch and the big plane skidded in a wild half-circle. The fragile hull split open and water poured in. Twenty-two desperate men & women scrambled to escape by hatchways and portholes. When the Clipper sank up to the overhead wing, two passengers and a steward were trapped, drowned...
...type as well as the bridge expert, there are thrills aplenty in the daily reports of progress wholly apart from the cards and skill in handling them. In the ninety-seventh rubber or thereabouts, for instance, Mr. Culbertson threw down his hand with words which even kibitzers lack the temerity to repeat, and remarked that he "refused to play another card until Hal Sims had removed his big feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband...
Poor, persecuted Mr. Culbertson! His income is reported to fall but little short of a million a year from royalties exacted from teachers who use his system, and are forced to buy his playing-cards, score-cards, and other paraphernalia. Yet with it all he found time in his syndicated newspaper article yesterday to give a good word for Sims and some advice to the kiddies. "I have acknowledged Papa Sims as the second greatest card player in the country, but after watching him play the following hand, I, for the moment, forgot myself by stating publicly that...