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Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, 20, Violinist Yehudi's youngest sister, eloped to Reno from her parents' home in Los Gatos, Calif., with Private Benjamin Rolfe, 27. Yaltah, who divorced Attorney William Stix last year, soon parted with her groom who returned to Fort Ord to be tossed into the guardhouse for going AWOL. Papa Menuhin withheld his blessing, explained: "It will take time to swallow and digest the news." Private Rolfe, unabashed and "utterly unmusical," declared: "There is enough musical genius in that family already...
...frantic crowd that tore it to splinters; trying to save it, he salvaged two chunky hunks. / / Dated to sing this week at a ball at wealthy Mrs. Herbert Shipman's plushy villa in Newport is her new neighbor, Gertrude Niesen, chatelaine of the Oelrichs mansion. / / Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 24 and twice a father, won his appeal to Washington for draft deferment as a family man. / / When the chorus of Cincinnati Summer Opera Association, claiming $400 for overtime rehearsals, walked out just before the curtain rose, the management hastily invoked arbitration and put the disputed money in escrow. The stakeholder...
...Santa Clara County, Calif. draft board put 23-year-old Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, father of two, in Class 1, because of his financial means, then gave him a 90-day leave to tour South America...
...illustrated classics for children and adults, became known as a fey genius whose private life was as original as his books. Better known than he cared to be, he announced to his publishers: "I am leaving America to escape to the jungle. ... I have been compared to Hemingway, Goethe, Menuhin, Schnitzler and Mozart. This has left me with not only a split but a hashed personality. I must leave, take myself to the silent forests of Ecuador and Chile, to write another book...
Born. To Hephzibah Menuhin Nicholas, 20; and Rancher Lindsay Nicholas, 24; a Leap-Year son; in Australia. Name: Kronrod George. Hephzibah is the ex-piano-playing sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin who married Lindsay Nicholas' sister Nola. Divorced recently was the third of Papa Moshe Menuhin's musical children, childless Yaltah (TIME, Feb. 19). Said Moshe then: "Two complete successes out of the marriages of three children is as much as any father can expect these days...