Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pianist Istomin feels that he arrived on the U.S. musical scene at an ideal time. The son of Russian-born professional singers, he studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. The U.S. was then benefiting from the wartime influx of great European artists. Says Istomin: "Every time I heard men like Rubinstein. Artur Schnabel, Horowitz, or Bruno Walter. I felt as though artistically I had robbed the city bank of New York. We were a very lucky generation...
...what purpose are the added years put? Will these millions of aging men and women be allowed to fall victim to a succession of so-called degenerative diseases, finally become vegetables who have to be diapered and tube-fed and, in the phrase of Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, 60, live as "chemical Methuselahs," a burden to themselves and society? If Bortz and like-minded medicos have their way, the profession of medicine must exert itself so that men and women can go through their eighth, ninth or even tenth decades still hale and hearty, until eventually they...
...Boston Red Sox's aging (34) Southpaw Mel Parnell demonstrated that he is no longer on the way back but has arrived. Parnell stopped the White Sox 4-0, pitched the first American League no-hit game since Bobo Holloman and the St. Louis Browns beat the Philadelphia Athletics...
...Train. Philadelphia's Budd Co. unveiled its answer to other lightweight trains. The new stainless-steel Budd passenger car, the Pioneer III, scales 52,300 Ibs., or 595 Ibs. for each of its 88 seats. In mass production the Pioneer will cost about $95,000-just above the trainman's dream of $1,000 per head, vastly lower than the conventional car figure of $3,800. Budd cut weight with simplified hollow-axle rail truck and wide use of plastics for seats, walls, baggage racks, ceilings, washroom appliances. The company estimates that Pioneer's maintenance costs will...
Died. Francis John Myers, 54, plodding, Fair-Dealing onetime (1945-51) Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, three-time (1939-45) Congressman (West Philadelphia), Senate whip in the 81st Congress and floor leader for Adlai Stevenson at the 1952 Democratic National Convention; of leukemia; in Philadelphia...