Word: elman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Mischa Elman, 76, violinist, who rose from a Ukrainian ghetto to play before the Czar by the time he was 17 years old, immigrated to the U.S. in 1908, where his sensuous, pulsating "Elman tone," far richer than the restrained vibrato and small tone then in vogue, took the music world by storm (to a fan who once gushed that he played like a god, Elman replied, "A god doesn't improve; I do") and launched a marathon, 5,014-concert career that continued until his death; of a heart attack; in New York...
...Quakers' runners, who haven't scored in three league games, are now hampered by the loss of leading rusher Barry Elman and fullback Whit Smith as well. In the reshuffled Penn backfield, quarterback Bruce Molloy has become a fullback, flanked by former fullback Tony Thompson and speedy Joe Schuls. The quarterback is likely to be sophomore Tom Kennedy, though senior Chuck Riley and Buzz Hannum are also expected to play...
...Cultures. Two weeks ago Johnson entertained Ireland's President Eamon de Valera. Last week he became the first U.S. President to receive officially an Israeli chief of state, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, 68, whom Johnson entertained with a state dinner and Bach music by Violinist Mischa Elman, 73, and by the Parisian Swingle Singers, who perform their Bach with a modern beat. Said Johnson in an accolade to Eshkol: "We are very much alike. We are both farmers." Two months ago he had received an Arab potentate, Jordan's King Hussein. Now came a non-Arab Moslem, Iran...
...hour-long script for less than $10,000 (although he magnanimously charges his own com pany only $5,000 per script). But the real money comes from residuals and royalties and from owning a piece of the show. "The rich writers today are the proprietors," says Producer Irving Elman. "A Stirling Silliphant really isn't in the position of a television writer. He's an owner-writer." Silliphant himself professes to deplore the trend to "hyphenated billing." "Why permit insight to be curtailed, sensitivity to be blunted, by deliberately plunging into the miasma of memos and meet ings...
...Spartan Regime. From Seattle to New England, the Rev. Elman J. Folkenberg and Dr. J. Wayne McFarland have brought their weed-killing message to throngs of dry-throated smokers. Their approach is simple. "We consider smoking an intense neurophysical habit plus straight addiction," says Dr. McFarland. "So it has both physiological and psychological components. We deal with both...