Word: horowitz
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Snappily attired in a dark blue oxford suit, a blue-and white bow tie and a black Borsalino, Vladimir Horowitz sits in a private VIP airport lounge, waiting to board his flight to Washington. His wife Wanda is wearing a new silk dress and a mink coat for the occasion. "It will be nice to meet Nancy Reagan," says Arturo Toscanini's daughter. "Normally, I don't like official bureaucratic functions. My father told me to avoid anything that involves government officials. But since we are going to Russia, I will make this exception...
Inside the aircraft, the flight attendant has to remind Horowitz to fasten his seat belt. "I don't like these things," he tells her, but he complies. Across the aisle is a blind man. Wanda, who each year anonymously contributes funds to provide blind people with Seeing Eye dogs, comments, "Putting together the right dog and the right person is like matchmaking. They both have to be properly prepared. The dog and the blind person stay together much longer and more happily than a good many marriages...
...hope the pilot doesn't make a mistake and bring us into the Potomac. I forgot my galoshes," jokes Horowitz as the plane descends to National Airport. "I don't think that's funny," counters Wanda, sternly. When the plane lands, the pianist applauds loudly. The pilot rings the all-clear bell, and Horowitz perks up. "F sharp," he remarks. "I hope Mrs. Reagan will be there," says Wanda...
...with my husband as his wife to meet the President and his wife. I am going to Russia with my husband. I do not understand why I have come here if Mrs. Reagan is not going to receive us. I don't want to go to the White House." Horowitz speaks up. "She's temperamental," he says. "Toscanini, you know...
...windy now, and Wanda is further infuriated when she learns that their limousine cannot pick them up at curbside. "This lane is for taxis only," explains the shaken USIA woman. That does it. "I will go back to New York," Mrs. Horowitz announces. Her husband quickly seconds the motion: "If she's not going, then I'm not going." A compromise is reached: Wanda will take a taxi...