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Childhood & Education: A king at three, Feisal had a brief fling at toys and tanks, lollipops, Flash Gordon movie serials and Superman comics before growing into a solemn-faced, rather lonely youngster, stuffed full of English, Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, French and dynastic history. At 14, donned his father's old school tie and went off to Harrow (Winston Churchill's school). Got along with teachers & classmates, showed no signs of the anti-British feelings his father developed there after three Harrowing years...
...four more years before Harrell's concert career started with a tour of Europe. Soon after that, he took a fling at the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air ("I wasn't much interested in opera, but I thought it would be fun"), was more surprised than anybody else when he won. Since a contract with the company was part of the prize, "that sort of threw me into opera." He gradually worked into leading roles: Papageno in the Magic Flute, Golaud in Pelléas and Mélisande...
...minute Symphonic Set for Piano and Orchestra by Kansas-born Gordon Parks, 39, professionally a LIFE photographer and, like Conductor Dixon, a Negro. Written in four movements (Announcement, Episode, Nocturne, Prelude and Fugue), it proved to be strongly rhythmical and melodious. It was Photographer Parks's first fling at composition. Since he cannot read music, he worked out each theme on the piano, recorded it on a tape recorder. Venice found the work fresh and attractive. Said Dixon: "We should hear more from Gordon Parks...
...them do borrow it. They offer to mortgage their houses and sell their cars. One earnest hopeful offered a 150-acre New Mexico ranch in trade. Another awaits a pending alimony settlement to finance her literary fling. But wherever the money comes from, it is a rare writer whose book sells well enough to make it back...
Unlike many good artists, Pirandello never had to worry about money, but even so, he had trouble getting started. He dabbled in strictly formal portraits of his family and friends, took a brief fling at cubism in Paris, then went back home to find a style of his own. The Fascists, with their ideas of snapshot art, slowed him down. ("The fashionable thing to do was to paint life from a purely realistic point of view. It was difficult to escape the trend.") It was only after the war that Pirandello began finding the form that won him last week...