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...Manhattan-born Meyer Kupferman is a hefty six-footer who decided long ago that he could teach himself how to compose. Some of his work sounds as though was not too far wrong: when he was only 15, his impressionistic Woodwind...
...composer who can lure Manhattan critics into taking a 30-minute train ride to the suburbs to hear a piece of music must have something on the ball. Blade-thin, Manhattan-born Norman Dello Joio apparently is one composer who has. When New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College put on his first opera last week, Manhattan critics and admirers traveled right out to Bronxville to hear...
...wanted a company that would play as a company-without stars. But in ten years, the emergence of some bright, twinkling talents could not be denied. Manhattan-born Nora Kaye had come out of the first corps de ballet to a position as the U.S.'s finest dramatic dancer; Illinois-born John Kriza had grown up from the line to become the company's most versatile star; Texas-born Nana Gollner was a fit and fleet classical partner for Russian-born Igor Youskevitch, who is perhaps the finest danseur noble afoot...
...asked for advice on how to become the publisher of a great paper, Arthur Sulzberger always amiably replies: "Do as I did-marry the boss's daughter." But his remark is not in the Times tradition of fairness; Sulzberger did much more to earn his job. Manhattan-born, the son of Cyrus Leo Sulzberger; a cotton-textile manufacturer, philanthropist and later anti-Tammany candidate for borough president, Sulzberger was brought up on the Times, went to Horace Mann school and Columbia College. There he was on the swimming team, danced as a chorus boy in a musical...
Because the risks are generally considered too great, most surgeons shy away from operating on old people. So when Manhattan-born, European-trained (University of Budapest) Dr. John Toma was appointed attending surgeon for the 500 residents of two California homes for old folks, he knew that his job would not be an easy...