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...short pants not to follow his father Harry into the book business (Book-of-the-Month Club). Instead, he went to Columbia and Juilliard School of Music. He foots the whole bill for his Little Orchestra Society. At first, partly because he hired high-rate soloists such as Isaac Stern, Claudio Arrau, Joseph Szigeti, and gave them a chance to play music "they can't play in Oshkosh," he found his society a little expensive. Now, Scherman reports, "it's coming closer and closer to breaking even...
When he was running a fruit stand across from Kansas City's Union Depot 40 years ago, Isaac Katz sold oranges at three for a dime. "But Ike," his customers would say, "the other boys get a nickel apiece." "Yeah," Ike would answer, "but they sell one and I sell three. See what I mean?" Ike's kid brother Mike saw exactly what he meant, and soon was running another cut-rate fruit stand nearby...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Violinist Isaac Stern...
...book, Bees (Cornell University Press; $3), Professor Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich sets out to improve on Poet Isaac Watts's description...
...shows the terror of death through the emotional disintegration of an old man; in The Disciple he tells a weird story of a meeting on Easter Eve between two quiet chess addicts who turn out to be Ahasver, the "eternal Jew," and a reincarnated Judas; and in Bow Down, Isaac! he brings to the climax of murder a story of religious fanaticism and family hatred in New England...