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...read with interest your perceptive article on Mr. Goodman's Leningrad performance of the Rhapsody in Bine, in which I was soloist [TIME, June 29]. I would like to say that unfortunately I had no time to "brood" at the auditorium as I was Milan-bound for my next engagement well before the second half of the program got under...
...placed his supporters in key posts. But apart from his health, two circumstances weaken Kozlov's chances: the mere fact of being once designated by Khrushchev as heir apparent tends to unify his rivals (Lenin preferred Trotsky and Stalin handpicked Malenkov); Kozlov rose to eminence in the Leningrad party apparatus, historically distrusted by the other powerful Russian and Ukrainian Communist factions...
Halfway through his six-week tour of Russia, Bandleader Benny Goodman blew into Leningrad last week and delivered his message-piping hot and groovy. The Leningrad crowd that surged forward to greet him at the opening concert shouting "Davai Benny"was by all odds the jazz-happiest crew the band had yet encountered. The only letdown came at what should have been a high point in the tour-the collaboration of Goodman and Pianist Byron Janis in a performance of Rhapsody in Blue...
...after New York's Al Oerter became the first man to fling a discus over 200 ft. (his mark: 200 ft. 5½ in.), Russia's Vladimir Trusenev smashed Oerter's record with a heave of 202 ft. 2¾ in. during a track meet in Leningrad. Sighed Oerter: "You just can't throw them far enough these days...
Four Pounds, Two Titles. Despite all this social activity, not to mention Rigoletto at the Bolshoi and a Russian circus, Salinger managed to squeeze in a little duty. He toured the Izvestia and Pravda plants, talked with newsmen in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev-all off the record...