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...repertory is pretty much what the trade calls "knitting music." But a platoon of composers in Holland last week was hard at work on some new and surprisingly engaging left-hand pieces to be played by a recent recruit to the field: 45-year-old Dutch Pianist Cor de Groot...
Until last summer. Pianist de Groot was a two-handed recitalist of solid international reputation. Then, during a recording session, he felt a sudden cramp in his right hand, was barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither cortisone nor treatment by a neurologist was able to restore full use to De Groot's fingers. He set about learning what left-hand compositions he could find, soon decided that there were not enough to keep a concert career going...
Collector Adelaide Milton de Groot, 82, is one of that expatriate generation that produced Baltimore's Gertrude Stein. The pick of her collection, ranging from Delacroix to choice Modiglianis, is on view at Manhattan's Perls Galleries, to benefit the League for Emotionally Disturbed Children. Heiress to several family fortunes, Collector de Groot lived in Paris' Gare de Lyon hotel for six years, was soon so chatty with art dealers that she was lunching in their back rooms. Her collection is a reminder of what bargains went begging in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Now snug...
...useful adjunct to the treatment of obesity, but, as with any other diet, regular medical supervision is essential." Their findings appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and caused only the faintest ripple among reducing authorities. But a free-lance writer and professional gourmet named Roy de Groot, serving as a night telephone operator at the institute, had been one of the out-clinic patients. He wrote a hopped-up account (published in Look magazine) of the diet's wonders and how it had taken 45 Ibs. off his roly-poly...
...committee, headed by Dud De-Groot of New Mexico University and including former Harvard coach Dick Harlow, drafted the plan at the coaches' annual meeting last January. The draft has been approved by the Association's board of trustees, and will go up for the full membership in January...