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Died. Samuel Moisewitch Levitas, 66, who for 30 years devoted all his energy, skills and love to keeping alive Manhattan's New Leader, won respect if not circulation (24,000) for the liberal, anti-Communist magazine of which he was heart, soul and executive editor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Ukraine-born "Sol" Levitas came to the U.S. at 20, returned to Russia when the Revolution began in 1917, served briefly as the Menshevik vice mayor of Vladivostok, but tangled with the Bolsheviks and spent several years in their jails. Making his way back...
...begins after a month or so to be visited by an uneasy feeling that this is where he came in. This tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long had a fixation on the Emperor Concerte...
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