Word: liberalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberace (pronounced Liber-ah-chee) is a piano player who dropped his given names because "Paderewski did not achieve worldwide fame until after he dropped his."* The trick took: at 33, Milwaukee-born Wladziu Valentino Liberace cannot give enough concerts to please all his fans, many of whom probably never heard of Paderewski. He has sold a phenomenal 250,000 albums of his records, appears on 100 TV stations (more than I Love Lucy), and by the testimony of his sponsors (mostly banks and biscuit companies) has directly accounted for "several million dollars worth of business...
Roberta Peters of the Mctropolitan Opera plays Elsa Valdine and sings the duet from Madame Butterfly with the voice of Jan Peerce, superimposed on Byron Palmer. Her rendition of Sempre Liber from Verdi's La Traviata is as sensitive as it is perfect. Violinist Isaac Stern is Eugene Ysaye, who gave Hurok his first big break...
...ever to receive in public, and stalked off with her own admirers. A moment later, according to the story, Tango Singer Hugo del Carril walked by to find Eva alone and in tears. He draped a friendly arm around her shoulder and said: "Don't rm'nd Liber. She has a screw loose. Let's have a cup of coffee...