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...Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser General Belgrano, once the U.S.S. Phoenix. Rojas' fighting reputation had gone ahead of him. "Damnation!" growled Perón, "he's likely to shoot!"-and scampered for refuge...
Poor Little Fellow. In 1896 a letter from Sheridan, Ark. plopped into the Washington mailbox of Arkansas' Democratic Representative John Little. It bore the news that Constituents Isaac and Belle McClellan intended to name their newborn son John Little McClellan in honor of the Congressman.* To his namesake John Little promptly sent $5. Belle McClellan, a lovely woman with a fine singing voice, died three weeks after John's birth. On her deathbed she made only one request: she asked that Congressman Little's $5 be used to buy her newborn baby a Bible. So John...
...Farmer James McClellan, Isaac McClellan, sometime farmer himself, schoolteacher and country editor, longtime lawyer and dabbler in Democratic politics, was quite a man. He remarried in three years, started tutoring John when the boy was four. He pushed hard and John gritted himself ahead, within two years was doing fine in the fourth grade of Ike's school. When Ike turned from teaching to politics, he took John along on the political trail...
...make enough money from button sales to finance a few music scholarships. Though some Elvis fans have protested ("You'll have to put sideburns on Ludwig before I'll like him"), the movement seems to be gaining every day. Dozens of Yale professors wear Ludwig buttons. Violinist Isaac Stern bought 200, used two of them in Philadelphia to decorate Conductor Eugene Ormandy and Violinist Zino Francescatti. And last week a TIME reporter who interviewed famed Cellist Pablo Casals (see Music) wired from Puerto Rico: "[He] came out in a white sports shirt open at the throat, brown slacks...
...love for Bach finally brought him out of retirement. In 1950, on the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, Violinist Alexander Schneider, a Casals protege, persuaded El Maestro to take part in a Bach festival in Prades. From all over the world famed soloists-Joseph Szigeti. Isaac Stern. Rudolf Serkin-poured into the village on the slopes of the Pyrenees to play with the man Fritz Kreisler had called "the best who draws...