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...academically the top school for girls, charges up to $1,650. Then, of course, there are extras: at Hewitt, riding lessons in Central Park cost $165 a year. The price of midmorning orange juice is $15 a year at Saint David's, where the sons of Negro Jazz Pianist Billy Taylor Jr. and Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., learn italic handwriting with "John-John" Kennedy. In addition, parents are expected to chip in handsomely on the annual fund drives, from which private schools get 20% of their income. The cost of all this leads one school principal to wonder...
Rare Air. But from the first, his real interests had been musical. He hoped to be a pianist until the disease slowly crippled his elbows and wrists. He had, however, a naturally good voice, with sound, deep resonance for a man whose body was so small. With only a minimum of concern over the problems his size would present onstage, he decided to make his career in show business. "It's what I do best," he explains, "and I knew I could always make a living...
...Third Day. Looking agitated, George Peppard climbs through a broken guardrail, glances below at the riverbank where his Lincoln Continental and a take-home cocktail waitress have come to a bad end. He staggers off to a plush roadhouse where he is eyed knowingly by the bartender, the pianist, and his waiting chauffeur. He blinks, confused, unable to place faces but sensing in the situation something familiar. The familiar something is, of course, amnesia-the basic blackout of more suspense melodramas than most moviegoers care to remember...
...years has been attracting an international group of artists to an 18th century ghost town in the shadow of Vermont's Mount Hogback. The festival began when the trustees of tiny (128 students) Marlboro College offered its campus to some of its musical neighbors, most celebrated among them Pianist Rudolf Serkin. In the years since, Serkin has made the festival a center where outstanding soloists, chamber players and orchestral musicians come together for eight summer weeks to work and study in an atmosphere far removed from the usual professional pressures. Many turn down lucrative offers so that they...
...that no one had heard ever before. At concert's end, the Vermont mountains echoed with bravos for the world's greatest cellist, who had proved that he could have become an equally exceptional conductor. Says Casals: "Bach must be conducted with the same passion that a pianist puts into Chopin: after all, Johann Sebastian was a very healthy man who fathered 20 children...