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Following the "suite" was Bartok's last completed work, the Third Piano Concerto, in which soloist Debbie Sobol provided the most satisfying music-making of the evening. Miss Sobol's lyrical, carefully-shaded conception of the concerto was brought forth with remarkable technical assurance and relaxed poise. Generally, the orchestra did not approach the buoyant subtlety and control of her playing in the first and last movements, again because of rhythmic and textural insensitivity. Moshell's monochromatic manner of conducting is at least partially responsible for such problems: a beat which does little to emphasize legato and staccato, piano...
Lyons has been legging it for 35 years. He broke in during the gossip column's heyday: among New York's reigning tyrants were Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Mark Hellinger, Ed Sullivan, Louis Sobol, John Chapman. "I was at the bottom of the pile," says Lyons, "so I went out and started digging up my own news." He has seen the name-dropping column go through a steady decline, but the rise of Suzy Knickerbocker is a sign that people still long for columns that celebrate celebrity. There will always be newspaper readers, says Lyons, "whose appetites...
Karen Lee Sobol...
Forceful Representation. Sobol's lawyers argued that if Negroes asserting their constitutional rights have trouble finding local attorneys, they must be permitted to retain out-of-state lawyers. And in federal court, Sobol's first witness gave stark testimony about how difficult it is for a local attorney to represent a Negro. New Orleans Lawyer Lolis Elie, himself a Negro, told how his law office was bombed two years ago. Then he recalled the greeting he received in one courtroom. Said Judge (now U.S. Representative) John Rarick upon Erie's arrival: "I didn't know they...
Obviously, agreed the court, it is unduly difficult for a Negro to get representation, particularly in Plaquemines Parish. "The circumstances convince us that Sobol was prosecuted only because he was a civil rights lawyer forcefully representing a Negro." Although it halted Sobol's prosecution, the court did not go so far as to find the state's legal-practice statutes unconstitutional. But even so, Sobol feels that his case will serve as a healthy precedent. "The decision," he says, "makes pretty clear that an out-of-state lawyer properly practicing this kind...