Word: paderewskis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of regular school, Artur had three tutors-one for French, one for English, and one for everything else. At 15 he was a veteran performer in the capitals of middle Europe and went to visit Paderewski, who relaxed the prodigy's initial tenseness by feeding him champagne. The treatment worked so well that a visiting music critic from Boston arranged for his first tour in the U.S. On the boat going over, the charming teen-ager-of-the-world lost all his cash learning poker, but he made a big hit with the fashionable New Yorkers...
...flattered by the attention he has paid me. There is someone, however, to whom I believe he has done a grave injustice in his book [The Eye of Man] -an artist not here to defend himself. I speak of the Pole, Jan Styka, close friend of Paderewski and one of the great men of his day, creator of the 200-ft.-wide painting Crucifixion at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif. [TIME, April 2, 1951]. If Mr. Rodman's book is on sale a decade hence, I hope he will not be embarrassed by the pages in which...
...only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to live to manhood ; General Phil Sheridan; Air General Henry ("Hap") Arnold and Admiral Marc ("Turn on the Lights") Mitscher; William Gibbs McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's World War I Secretary of the Treasury; Pianist and Polish Patriot Ignace Jan Paderewski, who rests in Arlington until Poland is free again; Navy Lieut, (j.g.) James V. Forrestal, later the first Secretary of Defense; Pierre L'Enfant, the French-born engineer who designed the city of Washington, also served as a peacetime major in the Army engineers; Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Beethoven, and satisfy his dramatic instincts in a part played by George Arliss. Even so, there were some "facets" left over. Liberace listed them: "Joy, sorrow, faith, love of family, love of children, and honesty." Obviously, a third theme was necessary; the story of a poor man's Paderewski who is nevertheless "an authentic genius" and gives pleasure to the millions...
...gift. The former President also sat down at Margaret's piano, wondering if it was in tune (it did not sound as if it was), and played the waltz he had taught her when she was first learning to play the piano. Then, as an encore, he played Paderewski's Minuet...