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...Favorite. It took three days for all the finalists to get their hearings in Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts. By the time judgment night rolled around, the crowd already had its favorite: 23-year-old Leon Fleisher of Manhattan, a pupil of the late Artur Schnabel. In the preliminary rounds Fleisher had drawn so much applause that the presiding judge had to ring a bell to silence the audience and get on with the contest. In the grand finale, Fleisher popped a piano string in the middle of the Brahms Concerto No. 1. But instead of blowing...
Last week Reporter Jack Steele of the New York Herald Tribune (see PRESS) broke the news that Flo and Chuck were an influential twosome when it came to getting loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corp.* In May 1950, they called on three RFC directors on behalf of one Sam Fleisher, a Minneapolis contractor who wanted to build a ritzy waterfront hotel in Miami Beach. Fleisher's loan application had been turned down four times, but a few days after Flo and Chuck made their rounds, a loan for $1,100,000 went through RFC with no trouble. Reporter Steele...
Time Off. In San Diego, when Motorist John Fleisher held out his arm to signal, a thug ripped off his wristwatch...
Siegle H. Fleisher 2G and Harold C. Martin 1G have been awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prizes in Comparative Literature, the Faculty announced last night...
...Fleisher received the $100 first prize for an essay entitled "A Letter to Longinus." Martin was awarded the second prize of $50 for an essay entitled "The Problem of Symbolism and William Blake...