Word: isaacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ISAAC T. GRAVES...
Polo Balls. To begin with, even the foremost violinists are out of tune. Jascha Heifetz, Leonid Kogan and Isaac Stern like the dark, virile tone of the Guarneri; Zino Francescatti, Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh prefer the lighter, silvery tone of the Stradivari. The Guarneri has the breadth and projection of a contralto, says one camp. Ah, yes, but the Strad has the clarity and finesse of a soprano, counters the other. That Stradivari enjoys a more illustrious reputation, says Heifetz, is because "he had a better pressagent." Actually, claims Jascha, "the Guarneri is a joyous woman, richly experienced...
...schedules for the monthlies had forced year-end issues to be made up too far in advance; the festive mood may have been unattainable in plans made in July. To be sure, many magazines carried the familiar religious pictures and sentimental sermons. Yet McCall's resident psychiatrist, Theodore Isaac Rubin, offered morose counsel: "There are those who feel they should have such enormous enjoyment during a holiday that they become depressed anticipating their inevitable disappointment. Yes, having to enjoy themselves can be burden enough to kill the enjoyment." And Seventeen's psychiatrist, Robert Nixon, warned his adolescent readers...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A galaxy of stars twinkling in tribute to Impresario Sol Hurok. Representing only a few of the hundreds he has sponsored during the past 55 years are Marian Anderson, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, Andres Segovia, the Bolshoi Ballet with Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and Antonio and the Ballets de Madrid...
Survival of the Fittest. Financed by a grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, Plant Pathologist Isaac Wahl began his search for resistant oats in Israel-on the theory that the varieties of wild oats growing there must have built up some sort of immunity. "In the process of evolution over millions of years," he explains, "the survival of the fittest applies to cereal grains...