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...refer fondly to his First Piano Concerto as his "stepchild." Critics have often used harsher terms. "Unmitigated ugliness," wrote the Nation at the work's U.S. premiere. That was in 1928, when the 46-year-old composer himself was at the piano and his old friend Fritz Reiner on the podium. Since then, the work has rarely been performed in Europe and never by a major U.S. orchestra. Last week it made a long overdue reappearance under the baton of Conductor Reiner, and this time the stepchild clearly strode with a giant's tread...
...piano soloist with Reiner's Chicago Symphony was Rudolf Serkin, who virtually alone among major pianists will attempt Bartok's fiendishly difficult work (at the premiere, recalls Reiner, Bartok himself made several mistakes). In preparation for the concerto, Reiner put his orchestra through five long rehearsals, three of them with Serkin...
...Kaynar Corp. in 1943 on the strength of an order for bolt retainers from Ryan Aeronautical Co. They picked up machinery at auctions, set up a profitable, 24-hour operation, spelling each other at the machines. When war's end grounded the aircraft nut-and-bolt business, Engineer Reiner invented the Lady Ellen Klip-pie, an improved woman's hairclip that has captured 90% of the market. Later, he invented the Kaylock nut, a self-locking aircraft nut so light that it reduced the B-52's weight by 600 Ibs., is now used...
Brains & Money. Though the growing company needed Reiner's inventive genius and Klaus's gift for selling, the partners haggled constantly about how to run the business. ''All of a sudden," says Klaus, "we found we couldn't afford that luxury. What we needed was action, not conversation." They split management duties down the middle, isolated themselves from each other except for a Monday dinner, at which they make all corporate decisions. Says Klaus: "Ken Reiner's the brains of this outfit. As for me, I figure if you don't have brains...
...success has enabled its two unlikely partners to go their separate ways in style. Klaus, the son of former (1913) World Middleweight Boxing Champion Frank Klaus, spends his leisure hours water skiing and practicing ballet with his wife and two daughters (his two sons prefer other sports). Reiner likes to battle constituted authority, from the Defense Department to the Los Angeles city fathers. He employs a full staff of lawyers to aid him in his causes. His pet project: because he deplores the state of education in public schools, he recently spent $300,000 to build a private elementary school...