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...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...
...will be an ambassador between you and Gorbachev, Mr. President," says Horowitz. Taking Wanda's arm, he introduces her. "And this is my wife. Did you know that she is the daughter of Toscanini?" As Reagan takes Wanda's hand, photographers snap the scene furiously...
Perhaps the only way to upstage Vladimir Horowitz in recital is to fall off the stage. Last week at the White House, the eminent pianist, 82, had just finished a dazzling performance, his first in the U.S. since his triumphant return to the Soviet Union last April, and the President was delivering an encomium linking the worlds of music and superpower diplomacy. As Nancy Reagan listened, the leg of her chair slipped off the edge of the platform, and she pitched into a row of potted yellow chrysanthemums. "I'm all right," she hurriedly reassured everyone. "I just wanted...