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Miss Lily Dumont's performance of Beethoven's fourth piano concerto last Friday demonstrated nicely how amatcurish professionals can be. With the collusion of Henry Swoboda's ill-prepared orchestra, she made the Beethoven as uninteresting as Czerny--and sloppily played Czerny at that. From the first, she failed to make notes sound clearly. Sensing that she ought to change the pedal after once plumping it down, Miss Dumont tried to compensate for the lack of footwork by wildly revolving her shoulders. Eventually, when she did clear the pedal, she revealed her right and left hands engaged...
...Oxygen. Then in 1949 he began the TV parlay that soon made him television's No. 1 star. He started with Cavalcade of Starpon the old Dumont network, a variety show during the course of which he developed the Gleason characters that were to become as nationally familiar as the face on the $1 bill: Reggie Van Gleason, the patrician sot; Charlie Bratton, the loudmouth; the Poor Soul, who always got into trouble trying to do things for other people; Joe the Bartender, the 3? philosopher-all played by Gleason and all representing some aspect of Gleason himself...
...German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
STEPHEN E. TREGNAGHI Dumont...
...gets results. He also thinks that "every growth situation has two elements of leverage-not only the growth of the company itself, but the ability to pick up other companies that have not realized their possibilities." Last month Fairchild Camera gave final approval to a merger with DuMont Laboratories (1959 sales: $19 million), which makes TV tubes and products in other fields where Fairchild wants to expand...