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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canadian officials in Ottawa, who frequently complain that Canada's genuine gripes against the U.S. seldom penetrate the famed "undefended border," last week were happily quoting a report published in Washington for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. In it, Congressmen Brooks Hays of Arkansas and Frank M. Coffin of Maine, both Democrats, tartly warned of a disturbing "erosion in the traditionally excellent relationships between the United States and Canada," called on the U.S. to mend its thoughtless ways of dealing with its neighbor. Some Canadian newspapers saluted the report as confirming what they had been saying all along...
...aging song-and-dance man, Actor Laurence Olivier piped some 150 show-world guests (among them: Lena Home, Peter Ustinov, Ralph Bellamy) aboard a chartered excursion liner for a midnight cruise up the Hudson River. Garbed somewhat loosely in naval attire (explained mink-clad Actress Jessica Tandy: "I'm dressed as a Russian lady sailor"), Olivier's un-nautical crew dipped into champagne and stout, danced Scottish reels to the skirl of a bagpipe, taxied home from the cruise at 3:30 in the morning...
...concerto, Van rose from the keyboard and walked out. "I called a halt to the music," says Johnson, "and wondered what we could have done to upset the kid." Just then Van looked back over his shoulder from the wings and drawled: "Go right ahead. Ah'm just goin' to the slot machine for a candy bar." He can be considerate to a fault. In Moscow, one of his American friends had to lock him into his hotel room before he dropped from exhaustion receiving the glad-handers and autograph seekers who streamed in all through the night...
...graduated from high school in 1951, at 17, Van headed for Manhattan and a scholarship at Juilliard. Russian-born Pianist and Juilliard Teacher Rosina Lhevinne answered a knock at her studio door one day to find it filled with Van's rawboned frame. "Honey," he announced, "Ah'm goin' to study with you." It was the first time she had heard the name Cliburn, but she invited him in and asked him to play. Says Mrs. Lhevinne: "Right then I said. 'This is an unbelievable talent.' His mother had taught him very well indeed...
...daughter of Rosalie Leventritt, the stately dowager who sponsors the contest, and joyously waltzed her around the room before the startled judges. The next day he appeared at Mrs. Leventritt's Park Avenue apartment. "Honey," he said, thrusting a bunch of red roses at her, "Ah'm just a babe at your doorstep...