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...resisted an impish suggestion allegedly made by Gerald Rafshoon, his new communications adviser, to evoke John Kennedy's famed "Ich bin ein Berliner" by declaring in Frankfurt: "Ich bin ein Frankfurter...
Almost lost in the flying millions was the memory of the man responsible. Born in Frankfurt in 1883, Von Hirsch began working at the turn of the century in the Offenbacher leather firm owned by his uncle. He eventually built it into one of the finest such companies in Europe. (The Grand Duke of Hesse enabled him to add the aristocratic von to his name by making him a baron.) Von Hirsch bought his first painting, a Toulouse-Lautrec, in 1907, and about that time also picked up a canvas dated 1901 by a 26-year-old Spaniard named Pablo...
Austrian Peter Handke, 35, first achieved fame in Europe as a flamboyantly avant-garde dramatist. His best-known play, Offending the Audience, did just that: insulted by the actors' dialogue and by the evident purposelessness of their actions, spectators stormed the stage when the drama was produced in Frankfurt. Handke's reputation in America is altogether more modest and is chiefly based on four novels that are less strident than his plays but every bit as puzzling and unsettling. The Left-Handed Woman, a novella, will provoke more admiration and head scratching...
...Milanese leftist who immediately tried to swallow a piece of notepaper. Police retrieved a segment of the note; it was written in German and signed "Brigitte." The swallower insisted that he was simply a messenger, and that the note was about the "Russell tribunal" (a radical political colloquium in Frankfurt, named for British Lord Bertrand Russell, that discussed West German civil rights violations). He was released, but the curiosity lingered on. Could the Zagreb Brigitte also be the Milanese Brigitte...
DIED. William Steinberg, 78, German-born conductor who transformed the listless Pittsburgh Symphony into one of the nation's best; in Manhattan. As a Jew, Steinberg was forced to leave his post as music director of the Frankfurt Opera in 1933. He moved on to Palestine, where he recruited an orchestra in Tel Aviv, and then to the U.S., where he became Arturo Toscanini's assistant at the NBC Symphony. In Pittsburgh, Steinberg was known as a disciplined maestro of self-effacing humor whose camaraderie with his musicians helped bring out their best talents...