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Joseph Stalin, it appeared (not dialectics), was really calling the pitch in Soviet music. New York Herald Tribune Musicritic Virgil Thomson quoted an ex-violinist of the Moscow State Symphony: "Anyone acquainted with the . . . 'musical mixed salad' . . . tastes of Stalin will recognize a remarkable similarity between his personal predilections and the officially sponsored concepts." What was it like to play for the boss? "If he likes a performance, he smiles . . . When a performance does not please him, [he] turns his back . . . There can be no greater blow...
...request for "just one more." Between the still pictures and movies, Dewey remembered that it was time to order dinner. He asked Paul Lockwood, his burly secretary, to do it. "Use your own judgment, Paul," he called. "Get three lamb chops and three steaks, six double V-8 cocktails, salad, corn, string beans, and chocolate ice cream...
Once a week she takes a night off, often tries out a new Manhattan restaurant, and orders her favorite meal: hamburgers and tossed salad...
...varnish the new soles. He did it by pounding the tip of a stick until the fibers were separated and soft. Afterwards, Band ran home as fast as his new soles would carry him, made his own brush, and set to work on his first oil painting-using salad...
...then to Paris, where he made his reputation. Finally he came to the U.S., where he did President Roosevelt's portrait, among others. His latest pictures, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, still look a little as if they had been painted with a stick and salad dressing (he uses dark pigments, thickly smeared on), but the best of them have a melancholy force...