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...Drucie Snyder Horton, daughter of the Treasury Secretary, and an escort of six Secret Service guards, Margaret Truman arrived in Malibu, Calif, for a two-week beach holiday and some personal appearances. For the radio, she chose the operetta Sari, in which she played the daughter of a gypsy fiddler; for television, she started rehearsing as the friendly foil of Comic Jimmy Durante...
...proud day for Michael, but perhaps a prouder one for his father. At the end of the performance, Conductor Mitropoulos strode to the first-violin section and shook hands with George Rabin, 51, a Philharmonic fiddler for almost 30 years...
Brewer's Horses. For his services, Mr. Speaker Morrison will get a salary of ?5,000 ($14,000) a year and, on retirement, a peerage. A keen fiddler and a braw man with the pipes, Shakes will have ample room to practice in the oak-paneled rooms of the Speaker's House in the Palace of Westminster, overlooking the Thames. Alone among British subjects, the Speaker holds levees at which court dress (breeches and orders for men, formal gowns for women) is worn. M.P.s must bow to him when entering and leaving the House. It is only when...
...young man in slacks and sport shirt planted his stocking feet beside the microphone, began bleating plaintively, picking a lackadaisical guitar. At his back were five other musicians - pianist, bass fiddler and three more guitarists - all working without written music. Sang the fellow in stocking feet...
Bartok: Sonata No. 1 (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Making his Bartok bow on records, Fiddler Stern gets forcefully to the heart of this difficult sonata (1921) without losing his beautiful tone. Recording: excellent...