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There were, of course, other ways to measure the importance of Graffman's concert. Now at 39, he has slowly but persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more...
...Republicans may, and probably will have a furious fight over their plat form. But there is no doubt about what the Democrats' will be: President Lyndon Johnson standing foursquare for all things...
...request by City Manager John J. Curry to see the plat's also apparently has been refused on these grounds, as has another by Charles W. Eliot, professor of City and Regional Planning. Eliot was recently appointed by Gov. Peabody to the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...
...diehard defender of segregation, but as a candidate who would work to bolster Ala bama's economy, build better schools and better highways. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by John Patterson (TIME cover, June 2, 1961), who did run on an all-out segregationist plat form. In that defeat Wallace learned a lesson. "They just out-segged me," he said to friends. "They're never going to do that again...
...Plattes dreamed of such a book all the time he was stuffing model cars and magic tricks into cereal boxes. "If we're going to give the kids something," says he, "let's give them something to help them rather than, the usual old blah." Forsaking blah. Plat tes commissioned Dr. Walter J. Breckenridge, director of Minnesota's Natural History Museum, to compile an illustrated nature book. Breckenridge included pertinent facts about each animal (horned toads are really lizards; skunks are ac curate up to 12 ft.), tips on such field-trip essentials as avoiding snakebite...