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...second only to that of Ludwig van Beethoven. But Johann Sebastian was only one of many talented Bachs who furnished Germany with music for seven generations. Himself the culmination of a long line of Bachs, the great Johann Sebastian begot 20 children, three of whom became composers of world renown: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Christian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach...
...three live happily in Warrenville, where streets are named after them, not because of their renown as painters, but because Albright senior's real-estate ventures turned out O.K. In 1928 they bought an abandoned frame Methodist church where many of Ivan's shockers were created while Father Albright's portraits of children looked serenely...
Fields won his greatest renown with his "rippling rhythm" which proved to be one of the most distinctive styles of the last decade, and which he has now abandoned in favor of an entirely new arrangement consisting of ten saxophones with rhythm...
Violinist Hubermann was the first musician of renown to refuse to play in Hitler's Germany. He has written two books on plans for a United States of Europe. A onetime resident of Vienna, he believes that Germany and Austria should be separated. In an interview after his recent arrival in Manhattan, he danced a Viennese waltz to demonstrate his conviction that Poles and Russians play Viennese music without the "beery heaviness" of the Germans...
Only two men, Joe Murphy and John Bronk (the "Bronk"), a former trainer, claim to have worked the speedometer on the up-hill stationary bicycle up to fifty miles an hour, but many a bored athlete of renown has spent hours toiling along at 10 m.p.h. to limber up a stiff muscle...