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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income tax. And a throng of Tahitians who did not want to leave the protective custody of France gathered outside the territorial assembly building in protest. Someone thoughtfully arranged to bring up three truckloads of stones so that the demonstrators did not even have to bend down to find their missiles. Taking aim, the crowd managed to break 57 windows in the assembly building while Tahitian gendarmes tried vainly to recall what the textbooks said about riot control. An official who still retained a dim memory of how these things are handled in Europe ordered fire hoses turned...
...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, a frequent judge of piano contests, found that Van had "almost the technique of Horowitz during his prime, and he has everything Horowitz always lacked." Raved Britain's Sir Arthur Bliss...
Extravert. When he graduated from high school in 1951, at 17, Van headed for Manhattan and a scholarship at Juilliard. Russian-born Pianist and Juilliard Teacher Rosina Lhevinne answered a knock at her studio door one day to find it filled with Van's rawboned frame. "Honey," he announced, "Ah'm goin' to study with you." It was the first time she had heard the name Cliburn, but she invited him in and asked him to play. Says Mrs. Lhevinne: "Right then I said. 'This is an unbelievable talent.' His mother had taught him very...
Other companies had bid against Indiana Standard, offering only the fifty-fifty split. But this was more fiction than fact, because they also offered huge bonuses, bigger than Indiana Standard's. Iran chose the smaller bonus and bigger split, gambling that Standard will find a huge new field. If it fails to, then Iran will lose the gamble...
...according to the film, Diana (Dorothy Malone) married a Broadway actor who came home from work one day to find her drunk and in bed with the man who later became Husband No. 2, a "tennis bum" who refused to work for fear he might "use the wrong muscles," and who took sadistic pleasure in driving tennis balls at Diana's face. Husband No. 3 was almost as big a lush as Diana, and together they rapidly drank up all the money she had made and inherited. According to the script, she wound up doing take-offs (including clothes...