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...Beam. In Omaha, John Staskiewicz, suing Ak-Sar-Ben race-track officials, charged that the beam of light from the electric camera at the finish line caused the horse he was backing to bolt, lose the lead and finish third...
...Murad (above right), one of Frye's companions, applies squeeze paper to the ancient inscription in Sar Mashad, Persia. Back in his Kirkland House study, Frye (below right) begins the long job of translation...
...everything from a tarantella to a sabre dance. But by the time he had driven Berlioz' old warhorse around the course, whipping it for all it was worth, the audience couldn't get to its feet fast enough. The passion and power he found in César Franck's over-explored symphony won him another wild ovation before intermission. And by the time his program was over, Victor de Sabata had Pittsburgh in his pocket. After the pounding, accelerating bombardment of Bolero, there was a full minute of silence, as the audience pulled itself together. Then...
...pick me, Señora?" asked 39-year-old César Bernal Cordovez, a mechanic in the printing plant of El Siglo. The woman insisted that he had appeared in Gaitán's office shortly before the shooting, and had given his name as Roa Sierra (the real Roa had been waiting downstairs to ambush Gait...
Boas in the Bath. Within weeks after the Ritz opened in 1898, the world had become the guest of dapper César Ritz. His intense efforts to please his patrons led to a breakdown in 1911, death seven years later. After that, his personally trained assistants ("the Academicians") and Mimi ("counselor to the management") saw to it that the Ritz tradition was maintained. Though Ritz had had an active hand in London's Carlton and a dozen other big European hotels, and had less actively sponsored the tri-continental Ritz-Carlton group, no other hotel ever achieved...