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...Corbusier. His well-known testiness inside the trade applies doubly to journalists, and TIME correspondents had to chase him halfway around the world, beginning in India, where he was abruptly unhelpful, and ending in Paris, where he at last consented to be interviewed in French by TIME Correspondent Israel Shenker. By the time their talk was over, Le Corbusier shook hands amiably and on parting said in English, "Hold your shirt on." Shenker looked puzzled. Le Corbusier made another stab at U.S. idiom. "Isn't that right? Well, then, keep your shirt on: Au revoir...
...ISRAEL SHENKER...
FROM The Hague, Israel Shenlker, TIME correspondent in the Benelux countries, reported early last summer that Russia's great violinist, David Oistrakh, might go on a Western tour, including the U.S. Asked to follow up the story, Shenker took a direct approach. "I picked up the phone," he said, "and asked the Dutch operator to get me Oistrakh, a violinist in Moscow...
...astonished operator was dubious but promised to try. Twenty minutes later, she had Oistrakh on the line. Philadelphia-born Correspondent Shenker tried the violinist in four languages, including his dimly remembered college (University of Pennsylvania '47) Russian. But he got nowhere until, on a hunch, he switched to Yiddish. That did it. Since then, Shenker has toured the Scandinavian countries with Oistrakh, and met him again in New York to report this week's story (see Music). FOR his first TIME cover, Vienna Born Artist Henry Koerner whose life and works are well known to TIME-readers, went...
Crocodile & Leopard. How accurate is drum talk? Wrote Correspondent Shenker: "The drums of the village three miles across the river are heard regularly at the Yalemba mission, and the native pupils are always coming up to Carrington with messages from the other side. One reported: 'My father is on the other side with food.' How did he know? 'The drum said so.' Just to make sure, Shenker asked Carrington to station two drummers 200 yards apart and put them to a severe test: "The sentence I dictated to Carrington was: 'The Giants beat the Indians...