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...Hofmann granted the four-year-old 20 precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...
...recognizes that an outside board is better for public relations and stockholder relations-to say nothing of its position in a proxy fight. Last week California's S & W Fine Foods, Inc., long dominated by an inside board, lost five of the nine seats to Louis A. Petri, president of United Vintners, largely because of stockholder dissatisfaction with the old board's policies...
...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...
Rider's Percy Belvin set the British mark of 2:27.8 at the Empire Games in Australia, but Leonard Spence, who swam on the U.S. Olympic team in 1936, set the world record in 2:25 flat. As a sidelight, Brooks also coached Elsie Petri, the girl who held the women's world 500 and 600-yard breaststroke marks...
...Previous Big Five U.S. winemakers, in order of capacity: Roma (30,000,000 gals.); California Wine Association, a growers' cooperative (29,650,000 gals.); Italian Swiss Colony (26,000,000 gal.); Wine Growers' Guild, a cooperative (22,000,000 gals.); Petri (20,000,000 gals...