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Then, in quick succession, he married a pretty Canadian voice student named Carmen Lasky whom he had met in Vienna, won a prize in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic competition for young conductors, graduated from...
...academy, and moved to Liverpool as assistant conductor (part of his prize). On the Liverpool podium, Mehta quickly discovered that "I was just unprepared to lead a professional orchestra. I learned at their expense but I learned." Two seasons of guest appearances and substituting for ailing elders gained him attention in America, and in 1961 he arrived in Montreal, says Concertmaster Calvin Sieb, "like a shooting star, burning all the time...
...over the same week in 1966. Bedded down with the flu himself, the city's health commissioner, Dr. Edward O'Rourke, had expected the death toll to reach only 91 for the week. From London last week came reports that an A-2 epidemic had spread from Liverpool to London, playing havoc with Great Britain's labor force and trebling the number of flu and pneumonia deaths during three weeks in December...
...against liberalizing practically anything. Witness Britain's venerable Oxford Union, an all-male preserve for 142 years until it banned de sexo segregation in 1963. Just four years later, the university debating society has elected a girl president. She is pert, brunette Seraldine Jones, 21, daughter of a Liverpool schoolmaster and now heiress to an office once held by William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and Ted Heath. There'll be no nonsense about a counterattack either. "I trust that men who find my presence in the union disturbing," said Geraldine, "will stay away...
...Beatles," the blonde nods knowingly. No, Chuck Berry, I want to tell her--written and sung by Chuck Berry when the only Liverpool sound was the bellow of an ocean-going tanker...