Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EARL SCHWARTZ...
...much relaxation as experience. It is a social game with a set of rules all its own. Last week the New York Post's brassy Columnist Earl Wilson laid down the most fundamental...
...Earl F. Gleck, Jr. '46--Bobbie Marsh (Wellesley...
...living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins. "The Messiah" Strad rests in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed "Alard" is owned by an English collector who does not fiddle with it. The third great Strad, "The Earl of Plymouth," was found in 1925 in an old storeroom on the Earl's estate. Fritz Kreisler bought the "Earl...
...Kreisler sold his Strad for less than its assessed value of $80,000. The buyer was a onetime child prodigy named Dorotha Powers, who quit concert playing in 1937 when she married a wealthy businessman, now wants to make a comeback at 30. Kreisler had hardly ever played the Earl Strad in concerts ; he found it did not suit his leisurely fiddling style as well as one made by Guarnerius, a Stradivarius contemporary...