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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spontaneous stomach rupture sometimes follows overdosing with sodium bicarbonate, but is uncommon from any cause. A case like Sharry Rubin's is rare indeed...
...Berliner living in 186 sq. mi. of freedom no miles inside the Iron Curtain, can be indifferent to other people's moods, particularly "out there," as West Berliners call West Germany. In Bonn last week, before setting out for Berlin, Adenauer had summoned Socialist Opposition leaders for a rare visit to his Chancellery. All joined in spurning Khrushchev's talk of a "Free Berlin." But then Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer spoke...
...last prisoners released. Ten years ago the Berlin Municipal Opera hired him on the spot after only a brief audition. Today he is booked solid two years in advance, has turned down offers from the San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala. He is one of the rare singers who can perform in lieder and in opera equally well. To Fischer-Dieskau, lieder are often vocally more of a challenge than opera. "In Winterreise,'' he says, "you have more than an hour of emotion without pause. But the role of Amfortas in Parsifal amounts to only 35 minutes...
...past, now praised "the great pounding rhythms which batter their way across the 18-ft. canvases, never for a moment out of control." Pollock was much more than "Drool School," conceded the Manchester Guardian. "Rich and splendid design of this quality and on this scale is infinitely rare." The Observer allowed that "the crude impression of a dotty exhibitionist spilling paint aimlessly over a canvas laid flat can be instantly scouted. Never, one surmises, was a pioneer more conscious of the effect he would eventually produce...
...thumbs through a notebook to see on which of 35 boards he still serves. Weinberg has a third field of distinction: adviser to governments. He achieved such success as a talent recruiter during World War II and Korea that he became known as "the body snatcher." He has the rare ability of turning a business relationship into an abiding friendship ("because I put friendship first"), has thus found himself with a huge number of friends who send him business, ask him to keep an eye open for new talent or for new jobs and, upon almost every occasion, seek...