Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first round eliminated all but 15 players. The second (Marin Marais's La Folia or the second movement of Kodaly's Sonata, Op. 8) cut them down to four. In the finals, first prize and 350,000 francs ($833) went to the U.S.'s Leslie Parnas, 25, first cellist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Russian entries came in third and fourth, while a West German girl took second place. Cried Maestro Casals: "That was real music, the most remarkable contest I was ever present at." Said Cellist Parnas, who soloed with the St. Louis Symphony...
Gallery Afloat. With half a dozen residences round the world to furnish, Niarchos has no shortage of wall space. El Greco's Pietà is too big (47¼-in. by 57 in.) to follow him around the world, remains in a room specially decorated for it in Manhattan. His favorite repository is the yacht Creole, which for nearly six months of the year is the Niarchos' home afloat. In the below-decks salon he hangs some of his best, has a special place of honor where he rotates his favorite of the moment-currently Gauguin...
...Dealers round the world are now wondering when Niarchos will begin culling out the Robinsons' collection. Niarchos himself has admitted he wanted only "seven or eight paintings," bought the whole lot to get them. But instead of unloading, Niarchos keeps buying. Why? Says Niarchos, "I collect for the pleasure and esthetic satisfaction pictures give me. I like living with them. They make my surroundings and my life more pleasant. It is by no means a matter of investment; it is a question of pleasure, fun and feeling...
...lashes always pointed down. Like other Japanese girls, she had been impressed by the postwar flood of U.S. movies and magazines. Instead of the traditional Japanese ideal of beauty-sloe-eyed, smooth-featured, flat-chested-many of them want to be more like their Western cousins with high noses, round eyes, curly lashes and prominent busts...
Third, the newspaper peddler notwithstanding, baseball fans are few in the Riviera of the West. Beaches are open all year-round. Santa Anita, Caliente, and Hollypark run races every day. Bull-fights and j'ai-lai games are just across the border. And there are too many parks and too much picnic weather...