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Small fry have been balking at piano lessons for a long time; the new distraction of TV often makes things even tougher. But Music Teacher Bernard Gabriel, 37, thinks he knows how to win: make sure the kids have fun. Sometimes this leads to a circus atmosphere in his Manhattan studio. Says Teacher Gabriel: "I've never yet heard of a child who hated circuses...
...Gabriel's pupils last week was a ten-year-old named Bobbie. He sweated and thumped at Schumann's The Happy Farmer, finally burst into tears. Gabriel handed Bobbie a baseball, told him, "Here, just for fun, see if you can play the melody with this." After a few minutes of baseball on the keys, Bobbie was ready for orthodox Schumann...
...Mohammed, with a handful of followers, struggled vainly in Mecca to convince the town leaders that there was no God but Allah. During these years he began to produce the Koran, which he said was not written by him but by God, and transmitted to him by the Angel Gabriel...
...Enemies of the People." Trouble began when Gabriel Alvarado, director of the National Orphanage and an avowed Communist, dismissed three Roman Catholic nuns of the Sisters of Charity, which founded the orphanage in 1867. A mob, made up largely of market women and university students, broke into the orphanage, beat up Alvarado and his aides, Another mob smashed up the offices of the Communist newspaper Octubre...
...Easiest Thing." Thereafter, one of the sights of Mexico was the lusty old brigand and two or three of his henchmen driving daily in his 1920 Overland touring car from Parral to the ranch. One day in 1923, General Motors Dealer Gabriel Chavez and some friends were standing before the agency show window as Pancho rattled past. The men scowled. Some had lost brothers killed by Villa, others remembered womenfolk carried away. Chavez said: "I wonder if anybody will dare let him have...