Word: paderewskis
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...Lune and grinned ecstatically through a Latin rhythm piece, 2) cavorted with Skelton in a dance number, and 3) played straight man when Skelton came to call as a treblesome piano tuner. Item: Liberace, in his famed toothpasty smile, showed portraits of his four greatest inspirations - "Bach, Beethoven, Paderewski . . . and my dentist...
...Truman banged out Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Here on the gift instrument, with the nation's most loose-lipped trumpeter, Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, bleating what passed for the south half of a duet going north. Then Truman tinkled through a performance of Paderewski's Minuet in G, later lauded by a Chicago musicritic as "recognizable." But the worst of his week was yet to come...
...went on to The Rosary, Twelfth Street Rag, the Beer Barrel Polka, some fast, weak boogie-woogie, and his TV theme song, I Don't Care (which he dedicated to his critics). Between numbers he casually dropped the names of God, President Eisenhower, Paderewski and some of his 185 TV sponsors (notably a toilet-paper manufacturer). He also introduced Mom, who was proudly sitting in a spotlighted box, wearing mink and orchids...
...Poland's late great pianist, Ignace Jan Paderewski, played the same hall to a crowd...
Thus did Ernest Hamlin Baker hurry to deliver his first TIME cover portrait: Poland's Statesman-Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski (TIME, Feb. 27, 1939). Artist Baker, who had done some previous work for FORTUNE, had been given just 48 hours to turn in the rush assignment. He made the deadline, and has been doing TIME covers ever since. So far, he has done an impressive total of 347 portraits for TIME. Since so many of you have written to tell me how much you liked Baker's portraits, I asked him to tell us something about himself...