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When Gregor Piatigorsky put away his cello for a long rest 15 months ago, he was the best cellist in the U.S.* Back in Carnegie Hall last week for the first time since his sabbatical, a slightly greyer "Grischa" Piatigorsky proved that there is still no one around who can touch...
...University of Berlin, and stuck it out. Stuart was not the only rebellious Irishman in town. Among his good friends were the Republican army leaders who felt sure they were riding the wave of the future. Gradually the wave ebbed and the certainty faded. Says a leaner, greyer Novelist Stuart, who now lives in Paris by choice: "Who could have suspected in 1939 that things would turn out the way they...
Some time after noon he would rise and begin opening bottles for a new day. By dusk the studio would be crowded, and Pascin would be ready to paint. He worked quickly and easily. As his guests got gayer, his canvas would get greyer, misted over with the tender twilight sadness that characterized his art. At nightfall he would encase his prematurely aged body in a dapper black suit, jam a black bowler hat on his head and announce that he was ready to go out on the town...
...week. It reported that 10% to 12% of all sheet and strip steel production was being sold in the grey market at fantastic profits ranging up to nearly 200% and "running into millions." But the committee raised no prospects for steel users-except that the grey market might get greyer. Advising against any Government action, the committee suggested that steelmakers "police themselves" by "conducting impartial investigations" and "making reports...
...most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, his face greyer than usual, hurried to the Policlinico. "This," he said grimly as he left, "is the worst possible thing that could have happened...