Word: perfectionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Texas-carrot-topped junior, David ("Skippy") Browning, 21, first-or second-place taker in every national springboard (3-meter) diving meet since 1948, a perfectionist who showed almost splashless style last week in piling up his winning 1,037.45 points...
Since 1938, RCA Victor has three times recorded a Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-only to have Perfectionist Toscanini refuse to let any of them be released. Last week, at 85, the Maestro told Victor to go ahead and release recording No. 4 next fall. "This," he said, "is the closest I can get . . . I am almost satisfied this time...
...Back conducting the NBC Symphony this season despite his 84 years was the white-maned perfectionist...
...practice field, under the orange & black helmet that adds an anonymizing grimness to his features, Kazmaier shows more of the fussiness of the perfectionist than the jet-flaming drive of a great halfback. But the flame is building up: it appears on Saturdays. On the first play from scrimmage he is so tense that Quarterback Stevens has standing instructions not to let him handle the ball.* Once the warmup of the first play is over, Kazmaier takes...
Since his return to the U.S. in September, the little perfectionist has been recording (and releasing old records) at a furious pace, perhaps finally convinced that his performances are worth handing down to posterity.* When a recording session scheduled for this week was canceled, he demanded to know why. Told that the hall was available only after midnight, he said: "Oh. Perhaps the musicians will be too tired." Replied NBC Music Director Samuel Chotzinoff: "I wasn't thinking of them, Maestro, I was thinking of you." Said Toscanini: "Then we'll record." The truth seems to be that...