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...fashion of an international society that mixes people of achievement with outsiders of the jet set. Guests have included French Premier Georges Pompidou (who was director general of de Rothschild Frères under his good friend Guy until 1962), former Premier Michel Debré, Prince Sadruddin Khan, Artur Rubinstein, the Charles Wrightsmans of Palm Beach and Porfirio Rubirosa...
...drove up. A man got out and jumped over a three-foot-high rail. He broke through a cordon of Dallas cops-who were certainly not having one of their good weeks -and approached Oswald almost as though he were going to shake hands. He was Jack Ruby (born Rubinstein) a stocky, balding 50-year-old bachelor who owns a couple of Dallas strip joints, was known to cops as a publicity-seeking pest...
Schumann: Carnaval (Artur Rubinstein; RCA Victor). Some of Schumann sounds like the fourth draft of a suicide note from a heartsick spinster. But here is an unpremeditated celebration of life, in which Rubinstein's firm hand keeps Schumann's Gemütlichkeit infectious rather than cloying...
...drink in the cultural delight and pellucid serenity of music. Since its inception in 1918, the Lewisohn concert series has fulfilled that function with zeal and occasional distinction. Of late, the masses seem to be flocking to the concrete-tiered stadium with somewhat less enthusiasm, and several topflight performers (Rubinstein, Isaac Stern and others) now shun it. For one thing, these and other artists are loath to face the New York critics under less than ideal conditions (too little rehearsal time, bad weather, bad acoustics). Concerts have dwindled from 65 in 1939 to 24 in 1962, attendance from...
...that was hollow talk. The line was still drawn. Rubinstein gave the proceeds of the evening to the International Red Cross-still engaged in salving wounds from the war. And as a little reminder that his old oath was not forgotten, he said: "We Jews are sentimental people. We are in tears when we come to a spot where we know our people have been killed. Can you imagine how my hundreds of relatives, all slaughtered by the Germans, would feel looking down from the sky at me-playing in Berlin...