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Last week, in celebration of its centennial, the museum had on view the largest exhibition of Hals paintings ever held. Eleven of the canvases belonged to Haarlem; the rest came from as far away as the State Museum of Odessa and the University of Illinois in Urbana. Queen Elizabeth of England and Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist of Philadelphia each sent a painting; the Earl of Radnor and the King of Sweden sent two apiece...
Billie Sol tried his best to talk back. He brought in a new editor, Tracy Sloan Byers from Odessa. His paper broke out in a rash of loud headlines-NOTHING DEROGATORY ABOUT ESTES GRAIN STORAGE, and POLITICAL HACKS KEEP UP STRUGGLES FOR HEADLINES-the sort of things Billie Sol could show off to friends. A passel of reporters came to town, and Byers almost hollered up a fit: "One concludes that the newspaper hatchet men sent to Pecos are instructed to find and write any fictitious or fabulous story, without regard to its truthfulness . . One cheerful thought is that Pecos...
DAVID OISTRAKH, 53, was already a legend before he briefly left Russia to conquer the U.S. in 1955. Son of a poor Jewish bookkeeper in Odessa, he started playing a one-eighth-sized violin when he was five, supported his family as a wandering fiddler after graduation from the Odessa Conservatory. With his 1935 victory in the Leningrad Concours and a 1937 victory in the first Brussels violin concours, he became the leading violinist of Russia. Western audiences were delighted by his warmth and humor: for all his success, noted a Westerner who traveled with him, he still seemed like...
NATHAN MILSTEIN, 57. another native of Odessa, was a student of famed Hungarian-born Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where, recalls Milstein, the young Heifetz was already established as "the Prince of Wales of fiddlers." A post-conservatory concert success in Russia, Milstein left for Paris in 1925, gave concerts with an old Russian friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. It was not until after World War II, when he married and settled down in Manhattan, that he began to build a reputation as something more than an extraordinarily gifted virtuoso. Milstein is still a master of the bravura composers...
Gone are the days of Potemkin when crowds swirled down the Odessa steps in a millrace of fluidity. Like Rembrandt, Eisenstein ended his career in a vein of classicism, but unlike Rembrandt, he worked in a medium that does not prosper when it gives up movement for stasis and symmetry--even when that symmetry ascends to such sublime heights as Ivan the Terrible, Part...