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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing, as it is practiced by most amateurs, is a little like a doubles match with everyone serving at the same time. But when two good professional pianists take time to master the exacting technique of playing together at the same keyboard, the result is often music-making of high order. Last week Manhattan audiences had a chance to hear the best four-hand team since the late, famed Josef Lhevinne played with his wife Rosina. Occasion: a concert at Carnegie Hall by young Viennese Pianists Joerg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda...
...repertory of original four-hand works. The five: Mozart's Sonata in C. K.521, Hindemith's Sonata for Four Hands, three works by Schubert (who wrote more four-hand music than any other major composer). In some pieces, Demus played "low" (the bass part) and Badura-Skoda "high" (the treble), in others they switched positions. Since the bass player invariably tends to underpedal to avoid thickness, the pedaling throughout was done by the treble player. When they intertwined their arms in passages of labyrinthine difficulty, the pair presented the bewildering aspect of a two-headed Siva...
...railroad worker in Washington, B.C.. Baylor learned his basketball playing settlement-house and playground ball ("I'd play anywhere to get a game"). When he graduated from high school in 1954, his marks were as bad as his basketball was good, but he landed a scholarship at tolerant College of Idaho. Freshman Baylor averaged 31 points a game, led the team to a 23-4 season, then transferred to Seattle University, where he really developed his talents. Last year Baylor trapped rebounds one-handed on the backboard, scored 32.5 points a game (second to Cincinnati's Oscar...
...dollar and current-dollar G.N.P. climbed sharply. For the next eight quarters, from mid-1955 to mid-1957, prices jumped around 6%; in that time the constant-dollar G.N.P. leveled off (see chart). The economy was barely expanding at all, though the current-dollar G.N.P. soared to a new high. When the downturn came in mid-1957, prices went on rising. Result: the current-dollar G.N.P. fell off only 4½%, the constantdollar G.N.P. 5½%. Since the upturn in mid-1958, Commerce said, recovery has been taking place "in a setting of overall price stability." Hence, in the main...
...obligation, and I will not look for escapes." Thus spoke West Germany's Alfried Krupp (TIME Cover, Aug. 19, 1957) of his pledge to the Allies to sell the coal and steel companies in his industrial empire. Last week, instead of selling, Alfried Krupp got permission from the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community to buy another steelmaker. The firm: Bochumer Verein, Germany's biggest producer of special steel. The purchase would give Krupp the biggest steelmaking capacity (4,000,000 tons) in Europe...