Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Night after night, when the last concertgoer and cleaning woman were long gone, Carnegie Hall filled again with the sound of genius. Alone at his piano in the center of the very stage where he made his U.S. debut in 1928, Vladimir Horowitz, 60, played on and on-but never for the public. Finally, after twelve years of self-imposed retirement, the pianist announced he would perform one more concert next week. Some 1,500 fans formed a grim, silent queue for tickets, which were so scarce that even Walter Toscanini, Arturo's boy and Horowitz...
...summer issue there are four creditable pieces--one by Desmond O'Grady, an Irish poet who lived. in Adams House last year, the others by recent graduates, Robert Dawson, Frederick Fields and George D. Horowitz. And these three probably only seem as good as they do by contrast with the rest of the material in the magazine...
...Horowitz's "A La Tarde Tourmalina" is a genuinely enjoyable story. The ending is a bit abrupt--an apparent icebox devours the narrator--and there isn't exactly a plot, but several incidents and patches of conversation are quite amusing. Two of the characters--a handsome, passionless perfectionist and his beautiful, passionless mistress--seem rather familiar, but the other two are engaging. The writing is generally vigorous, at times excellent...
...official slate for Yale's 85,000 graduates to choose from: Flour Heir Philip W. Pillsbury, 60; Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay, 42, of New York; and George B. Young, 51, executive vice president of Chicago's Field Enterprises Inc. Competing with them was William Horowitz, 57, a New Haven banker and chairman of the Connecticut state board of education...
Petition candidates rarely have much of a chance, but there was a special flurry in the case of Horowitz, whose son and son-in-law were also Yale men. Five hundred alumni, including Democratic Senator Thomas G. Dodd and leading Republican John Alsop, signed the nominating petition to get him on the ballot on the general theory that "it would be a good sign" to have a Jew on the board for the first time in the corporation's history. However, in the balloting, the alumni's choice was New York Congressman Lindsay...