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Dershowitz two years ago headed the defense of two JDL members charged with the murder, by bombing, of a secretary in the New York office of ballet and art entreprneur Sol Hurok...
...books that lay the whole plan out. It is all very coherent and tidy, a given schedule with largely predictable results that rest on Kissinger's intellect, imagination and dogged work, none of which Ford has or does. On the Asian tour Kissinger was as much like Sol Hurok as he was a U.S. Secretary of State. It was his production...
...worked hard on his own legend, Hurok eagerly boasted about what he considered his greatest accomplishment: "Bringing ballet to America and the American public to the ballet ... back when they called it 'toe dancing.' " His often hilarious way with the English language did not hurt his image either. "If people don't want to come," he once said while discussing the mystery of box-office appeal, "nothing will stop them." Hurok also authored two autobiographies (Impresario, S. Hurok Presents) about a life that began, like those of so many of his artists, in Russia. When...
...Hurok settled in Philadelphia, where he sold pots and pans, bundled newspapers, lost a job as a streetcar conductor because he could not pronounce the street names. He began going to concerts there, and liked them so much that when he moved to Brooklyn he decided to stage a few of his own. By 1915 he was regularly presenting such performers as Mischa Elman, Titta Ruffo and Alma Gluck in low-priced concerts at the old New York Hippodrome...
Died. Solomon Isaievich (Sol) Hurok, 85, colorful, Russian-born impresario who for six decades introduced American audiences to first-rate talent from all over the world (see Music...