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This eclectic American approach was partly conditioned by circumstances. "When I was growing up," Graffman says, "we could hear almost all the great Europeans in concert regularly, because the war had forced them to mi grate to the United States. Then, we had recordings. In other words, the pianistic world was at our fingertips." Even today, Graffman often refers to recordings by other pianists in developing his own musical outlook. "When I first work on a piece, I deliberately avoid hearing other performances. Then, when it is respectably well along, I listen to all recordings, because every great artist will...
...position as RCA board chairman with great seriousness. But even Sarnoff chuckles when Hope whips out with: "When I started with the NBC network, he was using the enlisted-men's washroom." And he has certainly had the last say on the progress of television. After Newton Mi-now's 1961 complaint that TV was a "vast wasteland," Hope measured television's subsequent progress and concluded: "Mr. Newton Minow is a man of high ideals, whose needling, prodding and constructive suggestions have led our great industry up the path to The Beverly Hillbillies...
...disease to one area. But the malady, which spreads with the silence and virulence of the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, marched inexorably across the English countryside. Last week, despite frantic efforts to halt it, the worst animal epidemic in British history raged through a 17,640-sq.-mi. area from the county of Gloucester in the south to Westmorland in the north...
...battle for survival. Within two hours, 26 boats were out of action, including Ogle's catamaran. Craig Breed-love's U-707 flipped and catapulted him out of the cockpit. With Teammates Cooper and Ramos handling the wheel, Reagan's Rayson Craft opened up a 6-mi. lead; then, with an hour and a half to go, Mike took over. It was eventful: the boat's dashboard collapsed, and Reagan had to prop it up with one hand while he steered with the other. He still managed to stay in front. Zipping across the finish line...
Actually, they said, only 1% of the state's 77,227 sq. mi. has gone to pot-and neighboring Iowa has even more of it, thanks to heavier rainfall. The marijuana that grows in Nebraska, mostly along roadsides, creeks, hedgerows and railroad tracks, is virtually worthless as a narcotic. "Smoking it would be about like smoking corn silk," said Lancaster County Extension Agent Emery Nelson...