Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fare of Power. Tito has obliged. Since the lean days of mountain fighting, his girth has increased considerably on the rich fare of power (and on sweets). He likes good eating. At official banquets, he serves whole roast boars, huge Polish hams, gallons of Dalmatian wine. Like his master, Tito's favorite Alsatian dog Tiger has also put on weight...
...them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine, he walked more than 400 miles from his native Lemberg to Vienna to study piano. At 14, he was made court pianist by Rumania's Prince Carol I. He became Liszt's star pupil, and practiced six hours a day to master the nuances of technique, played command performances all over Europe, exchanged ideas and mutual congratulations with Brahms and Johann Strauss in Vienna cafes...
Died. Moriz Rosenthal, 83, famed Polish concert pianist who played for kings and emperors in the glittering days of the Strauss waltz, was the last of the famous pupils of prodigious Pianist Franz Liszt; in Manhattan (see Music...
Hero of The Miracle is two-fisted Broadway Pressagent Bill Dunnigan. Bill always wore white spats, but "he believed that there was in the human heart a greater and deeper emotion than the thing commonly called love." Its name: "Palship." One day, goodhearted Bill discovered a tuberculous Polish girl in a burlesque house, got her the leading role in a movie. She played it like the great actress she had always pined to be-and then collapsed. "Bill," she gasped, "have the bells [of my home town] rung for pop-and me. . . . [And] some little girls with white paper wings...
Szyk, a round, bouncy little man with thin brown hair and thick glasses, thinks his most interesting project was the 38 miniatures of George Washington and His Times, which he finished in 1935. The set was presented to President Roosevelt by the Polish Government, and today hangs in Hyde Park. But the assignment Szyk enjoyed most was in 1924, when he was hired to paint El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh, Morocco. Sighs Szyk: "There were gazelles in the garden and dances of the bosom every night...