Word: lincoln
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...agents who came in search of the missing Yippie had to settle for a lot of '60s humor and the dim hope that Hoffman might yet show up at the Yippies' forthcoming Tenth Annual Festival of Life at the original scene of the crime, Lincoln Park in Chicago...
...Stoltzman, 36, is challenging all that. A short, engagingly boyish virtuoso who has chosen a solo career over an orchestra seat, Stoltzman has an almost magical rapport with his instrument. His recent sell-out appearance in the Mostly Mozart series at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, where he wore a velvet jacket and what he calls his "dress sneakers," turned into a celebration of the clarinet's possibilities. In Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, which he performed with the Tokyo String Quartet, Stoltzman glided effortlessly through long, sustained phrases. He caressed his instrument...
...Mostly Mozart success-Stoltzman will appear four more times in the popular summer festival-is by now standard. Last year, he won a $2,500 Avery Fisher prize, awarded by Lincoln Center to "exceptionally talented younger instrumentalists." He has performed as guest soloist with many major chamber groups. He has released two solo albums; the latest, The Art of Richard Stoltzman (Desmar), is a marvelous collection of 19th century French clarinet pieces. He will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic next year. Says Violinist Isaac Stern: "Rarely have I heard such a virtuoso use of the clarinet...
Illinois Congressman Philip M. Crane was in his office with the flags and the Lincoln busts a couple of months ago, and he was in the middle of a sentence when he decided he would run for President of the United States. He was, in fact, parrying the entreaties of a small group of friends and aides who wanted him to declare his candidacy. "I don't think that is the thing to do," he started to say, but before the last words were out, something clicked and he realized it was the thing to do. This fellow with...
...Ford Motor Co. and chairman of its dealer policy board; of a heart attack; on his yacht, which was docked near Cheyboygan, Mich. Second oldest grandson of Automotive Pioneer Henry Ford, Benson dropped out of Princeton after two years to work in the family company, and eventually headed the Lincoln-Mercury division. But he was happiest behind the wheel of a succession of motor yachts, all named Onika, and partly because of ill health, never played a major role in Ford management...