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Gusher. U.S. artists have consistently won impressive triumphs abroad since World War II, and this summer, with a record number of American musicians touring, they will dominate the European musical scene. In 1952 Pianist Fleisher won first place at Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against far tougher competition than Cliburn faced in Russia. In 1956 Pianist Browning (a Leventritt Award winner in 1955) came within a sixteenth note of taking first in the same competition, finally took second to Russia's Ashkenazy. This summer there are even two other Texas pianists-Ivan Davis, 25, who won first place...
...becoming the hottest musical commodity in the world, Van shuttled between awe and the depressing idea of "all those people making money out of me." But as the offers came pouring in, he began to display flashes of a sound horse-trading instinct. When he heard that both Columbia Records and RCA Victor (and every other big record company) were scrambling to sign him, he told Judd to play them against each other, get him a contract "that'll guarantee that if I go in one day and want to play Clair de lune, they'll have...
...Princeton's Lake Carnegie, Yale's powerful eight pulled up to the finish of the 1¾-mile course half a length ahead of Cornell, 1¼ lengths in front of Princeton, was clocked in a lake record 8:35.8. ¶ In the eighth race at Massachusetts' Raynham dog track, the greyhounds were faster than the $2 hunch players hoped for. They caught the mechanical bunny, and quit racing to chew on the fur-covered teaser. Track officials took an even worse licking: they had to return $18,345 in bets...
...said the council's antirecession committee, headed by Theodore V. Houser, chairman of Sears, Roebuck; but a cut may be needed if the economy continues to decline. In that case, the group favored an across-the-board slash in personal income tax rates; it did not go on record about corporate or excise taxes...
...Jury. In Vancouver, B.C., Judge Alexander Manson warmly congratulated Alice O'Keefe for becoming the first woman ever chosen foreman of a jury in British Columbia, dismissed her after a Mountie recognized her and told the judge that she had a criminal record...