Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert Lehman, 84, former New York Democratic Governor and Senator, with a fractured left hip, after a fall in his bedroom, in Palm Springs, Calif.; Van Cliburn, 28, rag-mopped pianist, recovering from tonsillitis, holding up a Western concert tour, in Tucson, Ariz.; Sir Anthony Eden, 65, former British Prime Minister, of a mild anginal attack, on Barbados; Marshall Bridges, 31, star (8-4) relief pitcher for the New York Yankees last year, laid up with a .25-cal. slug from a lady's pistol in his left calf, following a barroom wild pitch, in Fort Lauderdale...
...began hypnotizing the nation about the time the Gay Nineties became gay, and it disappeared years before the Stanley Steamer and the suffragette. It might still be gone if it were not for the efforts of a Sedalia, Mo., piano peddler named John Stillwell Stark and an entertainer and pianist named Max Morath. Stark had the good sense to start publishing classic Negro rags like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag in 1899 when he was in late middle age; last year Morath, 36, began playing the rags on television-and has become a sort of folk hero...
...Adderley and Bill Evans; Riverside) is scarcely a question that deserves an answer. Adderley doesn't know himself, and he exhibits his lack of conviction by flirting with every saxophone style he can think of. But even at that he is a very engaging player, and coupled with Pianist Bill Evans' dark moods, he seems a true blithe spirit...
...christening would have made news in any event; the baby was the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. But it was Gorgeous Godmother Sophia Loren who brought the wrath of L'Osservatore Romano down on everyone's heads. Sophia was asked by her sister Maria, wife of Pianist Romano Mussolini, to be godmother to two-week-old Alessandra. Unfortunately, Sophia's spiritual adviser, Jesuit Father Virginio Rotondi, neglected to tell her that in so doing she would be violating Article 2357 of canon law. So long as Italian and church law block Producer Carlo Ponti's divorce from...
...ivories in a busy beanery. The servant rises as the master falls: she goes to college and prepares to be a teacher. When they meet again, he is forced to swallow his pride and dissemble his heartburn. With humble irony he asks himself: "Dare a poor blind honky-tonk pianist aspire to marry a beautiful college girl...