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What major pieces must New York's industrious concertgoers hear oftenest? Last week, the Herald Tribune's statistical-minded Music Editor Francis D. Perkins totted up his annual reckoning of what was played in concert halls during the season. For the second straight year, Chopin's Ballade in G Minor won the prize. In 225 piano recitals, it had been played, for better or worse, in more than one out of ten. Runner-up: Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata...
Discovered living in the French village of Matour was another old favorite: Spanish Dancer Caroline Otero, once the idol of a dozen capitals and a good many capitalists. Oftenest-told tale of "La Belle Otero" is that Belgium's Leopold II once put her up as stakes in a gambling game with England's Edward VII, lost, and paid. Now in her 70s, still tall and stately, Caroline lives quietly in a small house on an allowance from an old admirer. "I spent the weekend regularly with Edward VII," she reminisced happily last week. "The Kaiser Wilhelm...
...recording two decades ago: about 75 million. The Crosby voice has been heard oftener and by more people than even these figures hint at. Most U.S. radio stations play about twelve hours of recorded music a day. Day in & day out, from coast to coast, the singing voice heard oftenest in canned concerts is Crosby...
...loyalty and admiration interrupted by only a few brief peeves. Long ago most of their editors and publishers began to feel that the President was less than all-knowing, all-wise and beneficent. Other Washington newsmen were conscious of his fallibility. But the White House gang who saw him oftenest usually stood up for him, until last week when they were madder than they had been since the days of the Hoover Administration. No one thing had made them sore. Their anger had built up for some time...
...Heard oftenest-usually profanely-that night in Minneapolis bars was the name of John Cowles, 42-year-old publisher of the Minneapolis Star-Journal. Rumor was that John Cowles (rhymes with bowls) had bought the two Tribune papers, was going to fold them for good-as he had the Minneapolis Journal two years before...