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...lately not even the tough Leventritt International Competition, which awards a first prize only in the years the talent merits one. has attracted the foreign talent that Moscow's Tchaikovsky Competition drew in its first year (1958), when it boosted Van Cliburn to world fame. With world wide competitions getting increasing attention, the U.S. needs an instrumental contest with truly international appeal-and the Mitropoulos Competition is an effort to fill...
...foot-high pile of dead leaves. Yet the house is famous. It was purchased by the pioneer abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky and his onetime mistress, Gabriele Münter, in 1908. There, at the age of 84, Gabriele Münter still lives, an artist who is steadily gaining fame in her own right as one of the best of the German expressionists...
Died. John Parsons O'Donnell. 65, longtime (1933-61) Washington bureau chief for the New York Daily News whose hard-hitting column, "Capitol Stuff," won him fame as one of his generation's top political reporters; of chronic congestive heart failure; in Washington. An engaging Boston Irishman with limitless gusto for the mechanics of politics. O'Donnell larded his stories with strongly conservative and isolationist opinions that landed him in endless clamorous hassles (most notable: F.D.R.'s angry World War II press conference "awarding" him the Iron Cross) but never dimmed his conviction that politics...
Ballads by the bushel have since embellished the fame of El Cid. Pierre Corneille made him the hero of France's first great play, Le Cid. Jules Massenet turned the play into an opera. And now Samuel Bronston. who recently made an appalling spectacle of the life of Christ (King of Kings), has produced the first film version of the legend. Inevitably, the picture is colossal-it runs three hours and 15 minutes (including intermission), cost $6,200,000, employs an extra-wide widescreen, a special color process, 7,000 extras, 10,000 costumes, 35 ships, 50 outsize engines...
Brubeck and his quartet still play much of the same intense, quiet, often dissonant music that brought them mid-'50s fame. Brubeck's Time Out has sold a phenomenal 200,000 copies in the several months it has been out, and his first single-Take Five, by Saxophonist Paul Desmond-had the rare distinction among jazz records of remaining on the pop charts for three months. In Britain, where he drew record crowds and collected $100,000 at the box office, Brubeck was mobbed by squealing teenagers. But the Sunday Times's Iain Lang has summed...