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...Genius." Irreverent sophisticates of the concert halls may laugh at Van-but not when he sits down to play. Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, whom the Russians regard as their best, dubbed Van "a genius -a word I do not use lightly about performers." In tears of emotion Pianist Emil Gilels grabbed Van as he came off the stage after playing Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto, bussed him soundly on both cheeks. To Composer Aram Khachaturian, Van was "better than Rachmaninoff; you find a virtuoso like this only once or twice in a century." France's Marquis de Gontaut-Biron...
...bushers. A Bronx-born Giant fan who seldom bothered to go to a ballpark, Walter O'Malley went to work for the Dodgers as an attorney. "Why, I don't think he even knows what Duke Snider makes," snorts the Dodgers' Vice President and General Manager Emil ("Buzzy") Bavasi. "He leaves all that to me." But tomorrow he may well be the boss of the league. What will come of that eminence...
...nearly ten minutes the bravos echoed through the cavernous hall; finally the judges, in violation of the contest rules, permitted Cliburn to return to the stage for a second bow. Then the orchestra rose and joined the ovation. Backstage, the jurors, including famed Russian Pianist Emil Gilels, embraced Cliburn. Alexander Goldenweiser, octogenarian dean of Russian pianists, kept repeating one word: "Genius!" Hearing the news, the New York Philharmonic promptly signed Cliburn for four Manhattan concerts in the winter...
...Singers Roberta Peters and Blanche The-bom and Conductor Leopold Stokowski, the Philadelphia Orchestra for Soviet Pianist Emil Gilels and Violinist Leonid Kogan (who are in the U.S. now), plus the Bolshoi Theater Ballet and other stellar attractions...
...Only two other major portraits are still privately owned: Baronne James de Rothschild, still proudly owned by the Rothschild family, and M. Devillcrs, now in Switzerland in the collection of Madame Emil Biihrle, widow of the famed munitions maker...