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Nudged from the Niche. Founded in 1810 by a Quaker farmer named Isaac Pennock (whose daughter Rebecca gave her married name to the company, actually ran it herself for 22 years), Lukens has been nudged out of its modest niche by the big demand. Last week President Huston announced that the company will launch a $33 million expansion program that will boost Lukens' rated ingot capacity by nearly 25% to 925,000 tons...
Boston Symphony (Mon. 8:05 p.m., NBC). With Charles Munch. Soloist: Isaac Stern...
After fiddling his way through the first movement of a Brahms concerto in Miami Beach, famed Violinist Isaac Stern, deeply annoyed by an unwanted metronome, insistent and offbeat, stalked off the stage, announcing: "That noise disturbs me. I cannot play with that competition!" His offending accompanist: a cricket that had taken up lodging in a nearby potted palm. After a five-minute search, workmen located the chirper, removed it so that Musician Stern, who had been mopping his brow backstage, could again return as solo soloist...
...sixth Rebbe, Joseph Isaac, arrived in New York City, an ill and exhausted refugee from Communist imprisonment and the German bombardment of Warsaw. But in the decade before he died, he planted the Lubavitcher movement deep in the U.S. He organized "Torah Missions," and set up Lubavitcher Bible classes, founded a publishing house to turn out textbooks in English and Hebrew, dispatched missionaries all over the world. After his death in 1949, he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Menachem Mendel, who, like all Rebbes, added Schneerson to his name in honor of Founder Shneur Zalman...
Long Discourse. Author Weiner describes his visit to a farbrengung, an annual festivity in celebration of Joseph Isaac's release from Communist prison. The courtyard adjoining the Brooklyn headquarters was jammed with Lubavitcher men at benches and tables, many of them in long black coats or full jackets and large-brimmed black hats. Some wore the gartel, a black silk cord bound around the waist to symbolize the distinction between the "higher" and "lower" parts of man. As soon as blue-eyed, black-bearded Menachem Mendel arrived, he was handed a bottle of whisky, which he passed to outstretched...