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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richter-Haaser's big-time career at the piano began at a time when many a lesser pianist is already beginning to fade from sight. The son of a carpenter (and amateur musician), he studied piano at the Dresden Music School, at 18 started to play concerts all over Germany. A decade later World War II interrupted his career. Assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he did not touch a piano for seven years, except to play in U.S. military hospitals as a P.W. at war's end. When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after...
...year-old quiz contestant told a House sub-committee on Legislative Over sight that he was coached by Albert Freedman, the producer of the NBC show. Van Doren also claimed that he asked to be allowed to go on the program honestly, without help, but was told that it was impossible...
...orchestra's conductor, together with the acquisition of so much new talent has made a great difference in the morale and performing quality of the group. Mr. Senturia has reached a good balance between preparation and spontaneity, between attention to concerts and the more private activity of sight-reading in rehearsals. His conducting is not subtle, but it is rhythmically sure, as was shown in the complicated Stravinsky pieces. But much more important is the sense of enthusiasm which he communicates to the players, which is reflected back to the audience in performances that are alive and interesting. With careful...
...near midnight in Mayfair, heart of London's gilded West End. Rain clouds had driven Sunday window-shoppers home early, not a bobby was in sight, and the drifting squadrons of prostitutes who once crowded Mayfair's shadowy lanes had long since been sent to cover with the enactment of Britain's tough new laws against streetwalking. When a solitary car pulled to a halt in front of the Piccadilly shop of the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' Association, the stage was set for the greatest jewel robbery in Britain's history...
...many Indians, the sight of Communists floundering is a source of malicious merriment. Parodying Nikita Khrushchev's rasping answer to a question about Hungary during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...