Word: paderewskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joshed with Neal Helm, an old Caruthersville friend who sat to his right. He was completely at home, and everybody in the room was at home with the President. Just before the pie à la mode, a grey-haired woman announced that the President "has consented to play Paderewski's Minuet...
When first returns from Missouri indicated that the state might go Republican, Truman exclaimed: "Wow! I think that calls for a concert." He slid behind the chrysanthemum-bedecked piano, tinkled out Paderewski's Minuet, followed it with gay waltzes. At 9:30 p.m. Vice President Wallace, whose doggedly devoted campaigning had brought him both sneers ("the Johnny Appleseed of 1944"), and cheers (louder at Madison Square Garden than those for Truman), became the first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed...
...People Remembered. During the afternoon and night before his funeral his body lay in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral -the first time since the death of Ignace Paderewski in 1941 that a layman had been accorded this honor. The people of New York had not forgotten him. From mid-afternoon until 2 a.m. the four blocks of sidewalk around the cathedral were jammed with a solid mass of people, waiting to enter. A drizzling rain fell toward evening, gleaming wetly on hundreds of umbrellas, but the patient, silent crowds shuffled on-soldiers, old women, Negroes, bobby-sox girls...
...sensitive personal touch will tune pianos differently for different pianists. Virtuosos such as Josef Hofmann and the late Sergei Rachmaninoff hire a favorite tuner's fulltime services. Perhaps the most famous piano tuner who ever lived was the late Eldon Joubert of Boston, who for 30 years was Paderewski's constant companion...
...late husband's teaching. To get eye relaxation a patient covers his eyes with his hands and thinks of blackness ("palming"); blinks frequently. He practices reading fine print. He "suns" his eyes (rolls his head while glancing sunward). Mrs. Bates has successfully treated many patients, including Ignace Jan Paderewski...