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...When I was a student at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg,'' says Violinist Jascha Heifetz, the great Leopold Auer "pointed the finger at me and told me to teach." Heifetz was game. But thanks to his concert career and a later period of semiretirement. he took his time following Auer's advice. When he settled down to teaching this winter. Heifetz decided to enlist his Los Angeles neighbors -Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violist William Primrose. Result: the most gifted string faculty in the world...
...During the battle for Fort Mercer, N.J., in 1777, the Americans ran short of ammunition, and soldiers were offered a gill of rum (4 oz.) to retrieve 32-lb. British cannon balls that had fallen short of the mark. U.S. guns then lobbed them back at the British. Near Petersburg, Va., in the closing days of the war, the British captured 700 Negro slaves who had caught smallpox, and deliberately sent them among the rebels as an experiment in germ warfare...
Winging into St. Petersburg with parasol at the ready, Major Stockholder Joan Whitney Payson joined Manager Charles Dillon Stengel for baseball's least auspicious event of the week: the launching of the National League's fledgling New York Mets. Asked if he thought he could alchemize a champion from the best dross that Whitney money could buy, Casey instinctively retorted: "I expect to win every day." Then, from the most voluble player in the league came an uncharacteristic halt in the Mach 2 verbiage. "Maybe," sighed Casey, "I'll be shell-shocked...
...invention of snowmaking machines has brought skiing even to such stately summering places as Virginia's Homestead hotel. At Cataloochee Ranch in North Carolina, man-made snow brings skiers from as far away as St. Petersburg...
NATHAN MILSTEIN, 57. another native of Odessa, was a student of famed Hungarian-born Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where, recalls Milstein, the young Heifetz was already established as "the Prince of Wales of fiddlers." A post-conservatory concert success in Russia, Milstein left for Paris in 1925, gave concerts with an old Russian friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. It was not until after World War II, when he married and settled down in Manhattan, that he began to build a reputation as something more than an extraordinarily gifted virtuoso. Milstein is still a master of the bravura composers...