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...first, Louise, is Miller's first wife, Mary Grace Slattery. The second is Maggie, a switchboard operator who becomes a celebrated performer only to succumb to sexual obsessions, hysteria, drink, and fatal sleeping-pills--Marilyn Monroe, of course. Quentin's third big love is Holga, an archaeologist from Salzburg who helps Quentin to confront the Nazis' genocide camps (twice she states, "No-one they [the Nazis] didn't kill can be innocent again," and Quentin muses, "No man lives who would not rather be the sole survivor of this place than all its finest victims. ... Who can be innocent again...
Sometimes he stays at home in Salzburg, playing in the drawing room of his elegant villa for the pleasure of the crowds that cluster outside the open French windows. Sometimes he packs his three oak organs on the back of a red and blue furniture van and takes his music on the road, like a traveling medicine show. Whichever, the driver of the truck and the owner of the villa bears one of the most celebrated names in European music: Von Karajan-Wolfgang von Karajan...
Clean & Clear. Both Von Karajan brothers were regarded as prodigies in their youth and studied at Salzburg's famed Mozarteum. But after graduation, Herbert took up conducting; Wolfgang studied electronics, went on to become both inventor and manufacturer of electromedical instruments. So successful was Wolfgang that today, despite Herbert's astronomical concert and recording fees, Wolfgang is the more prosperous...
Died. Ferenc Fricsay, 48. energetic and far-ranging Hungarian-born conductor, at one time or another director of the Budapest and Munich State Operas, frequent guest conductor with the Salzburg Festival, Milan's La Scala and orchestras throughout Europe, but best known for his precise, cold-fire style that in the early 1950s raised the Berlin Radio Symphony to rank as one of Europe's best; in Basel, Switzerland...
...TRINIDAD. In this busy, commercial island off the coast of Venezuela, the brand-new, air-conditioned Trinidad Hilton, completed last summer, can count on traveling businessmen and conventions as well as tourists to keep its 261 rooms filled (rates: $20 to $37). Trinidad might be considered the Salzburg of the Caribbean-being the birthplace of calypso and the ubiquitous steel band. Its other claim to fame: the factory from which Angostura bitters sprays upon the civilized world...