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...tries to immerse his own personality in the personality he finds expressed in the score. The process is so absorbing that even at mealtimes he is likely to sit silent, sunk in mental rehearsal of selections from the file of music stored in his memory. He is largely self-taught. The son of a Munich insurance director, he studied piano privately, had only three months' instruction in conducting in 1942 at the Munich Hochschule für Musik before he was called up for army service. He was taken prisoner by the British in 1945, released...
...Charles E. (forEmil) Eble, 56, moves into the presidency of New York's Consolidated Edison Co., one of the nation's biggest gas and electric companies (2,755,000 customers, $523 million annual revenue), replacing Harland C. Forbes, 59, who moves up to board chairman. A self-taught financial expert, whose formal schooling ended after two years of high school, Eble joined Con Ed in 1916 as a "corridor boy," sandwiching in two years of correspondence courses from the Alexander Hamilton Institute between chores. Shifted to the accounting department, Eble was an assistant comptroller in 1935, became...
...poor, too, railing down the years against the Brahmins of Back Bay, State Street and Harvard. Curley's long memory bears the imprint of the Yankee sign, "No Irish Need Apply," that was so frequent in his youth. Though he had little more than a grammar-school education, self-taught James Curley sprinkled his oratory and conversation with lines from Shakespeare, Cervantes and Voltaire, all seemingly aimed at proving him the peer of any Harvardman...
Born into a Kyoto family engaged in making priests' robes, Tessai was apprenticed in pottery-making, was encouraged in his scholarly interests as a youth by Rengetsu, a Buddhist nun famed for her verse. But from then on, Tessai was largely self-taught, spent the rest of his life carrying out the ancient Chinese precept: "Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles." Though Tessai traveled extensively throughout Japan-including a visit to the Hairy Ainus in Hokkaido (Tessai sketched them humorously, looking like prime candidates for Cartoonist Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia)-and did drawings...
...Giacomo Manzu, 48, takes the opposite tack. Although he, too, is self-taught, he was deeply influenced by classic Greek art, and has hewn to traditional lines. Now ranked as one of Italy's leading sculptors, Manzu won the grand prize for Italian sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948, was commissioned by the Vatican in 1950 to do a bronze door at St. Peter's, had a recent showing in Manhattan, and is now represented at the Museum of Modern Art by his tender, elegant Portrait of a Lady. Discussing his own work, Manzu says: "Each...