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...into a worldwide petrochemical operation is supplied by its big (200 Ibs.), back-thumping managing director, Piero Giustiniani, 61. Last week, to expand its toehold in the U.S. chemical market, Montecatini bought for an estimated $5.7 million a 4% interest in New Jersey's Minerals and Chemicals-Philipp Corp. As part of the deal-which is designed to produce transatlantic cooperation in mining, manufacturing and merchandising-Giustiniani got a seat on the Minerals and Chemicals board. Somewhat ruefully, Italian colleagues predict that American directors will find simpatico Giustiniani's habit of working 13 hours...
...Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (third son of Johann Sebastian) described the pitfalls of harpsichord playing, adding that a good harpsichord performer must have "das Schnellen" (the snap), achieved by imitating with one's fingers the leg action of a chicken scratching the ground. Despite such difficulties (experts figure that not one harpsichord player in a hundred had his Schnellen properly under control), the U.S. is in the grip of a major harpsichord boom, fostered by such players as Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe, Fernando Valenti and the late great Wanda Landowska...
Eighteenth Century Recorder Music (The Recorder Consort; Classic Editions). Charming, lively chamber works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680-1730), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) and Bach, proving that the flutelike recorder, usually belittled as an amateur's instrument, can be as stimulating a voice as any woodwind...
Wouldn't it have been appropriate and also interesting to tell the readers of TIME that a German, Philipp Reis (1834-1874), invented the telephone...
...Yale match, for instance, the Yardlings were missing their number three, seven, and eight men--Jim Parkman, John Philipp, and Sandy Cortesi. Furthermore, third alternate Hal Roberts was also unable to complete, forcing coach Corey Wynn to dip down to his thirteenth man in the most important contest of the season...